Hurricane Agatha (2022)

Hurricane Agatha reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between May 27, 2022 and June 1, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 964 mb, and made landfall. It killed 9 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Agatha, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2022 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin: Eastern Pacific
Dates: May 27, 2022 to June 1, 2022
Peak strength: Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Lowest pressure: 964 mb (28.47 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 6.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached: 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size: 150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 115 kt (132 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 8 kt (9 mph)
Identifier: EP012022

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

National Hurricane Center

9 direct deathsnone recorded in the United States

The season table in NHC’s report archive, final report. Direct deaths are those caused by the storm’s own wind, water or surge, anywhere in the world.

Landfall

Time (UTC)	Where	Position	Wind	Pressure
May 30, 21:00	Crucecita, Oaxaca, Mexico, 50 km away	15.7N 96.6W	90 kt (104 mph)	971 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
May 27, 18:00	12.9N 97.3W	25 kt	1008 mb	Low
May 28, 00:00	12.8N 97.7W	30 kt	1006 mb	Tropical depression
May 28, 06:00	12.9N 97.9W	35 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
May 28, 12:00	13.2N 97.9W	40 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
May 28, 18:00	13.6N 98.2W	50 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
May 29, 00:00	13.8N 98.8W	55 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
May 29, 06:00	13.9N 99.1W	65 kt	992 mb	Hurricane
May 29, 12:00	14.0N 99.1W	75 kt	981 mb	Hurricane
May 29, 18:00	14.0N 98.9W	95 kt	964 mb	Hurricane
May 30, 00:00	14.3N 98.5W	95 kt	964 mb	Hurricane
May 30, 06:00	14.6N 98.0W	90 kt	968 mb	Hurricane
May 30, 12:00	15.0N 97.4W	85 kt	979 mb	Hurricane
May 30, 18:00	15.4N 96.9W	90 kt	974 mb	Hurricane
May 30, 21:00 landfall	15.7N 96.6W	90 kt	971 mb	Hurricane
May 31, 00:00	15.9N 96.4W	70 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
May 31, 06:00	16.5N 95.8W	50 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
May 31, 12:00	17.0N 95.3W	30 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
May 31, 18:00	17.7N 94.9W	20 kt	1005 mb	Low
Jun 1, 00:00	18.0N 94.7W	20 kt	1006 mb	Low
Jun 1, 06:00	18.3N 94.6W	20 kt	1007 mb	Low

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2022

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.