The 2022 season

Hurricane Howard (2022)

Hurricane Howard reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 6, 2022 and August 13, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 983 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Howard, 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
August 6, 2022 to August 13, 2022
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
983 mb (29.03 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 480 km (298 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
90 kt (104 mph)
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP092022

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

National Hurricane Center

0 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.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 6, 12:0014.0N 105.3W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 6, 18:0014.7N 106.3W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 00:0015.4N 107.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 06:0016.0N 108.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 12:0016.6N 109.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 18:0017.2N 110.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0018.0N 111.3W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0018.8N 112.2W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0019.7N 113.1W55 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0020.3N 113.9W65 kt991 mbHurricane
Aug 9, 00:0020.9N 114.8W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Aug 9, 06:0021.4N 115.7W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Aug 9, 12:0021.9N 116.5W70 kt986 mbHurricane
Aug 9, 18:0022.4N 117.3W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Aug 10, 00:0022.9N 118.0W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0023.3N 118.8W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0023.6N 119.8W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0023.8N 120.9W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0024.0N 121.9W40 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 11, 06:0024.0N 123.0W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 11, 12:0024.1N 124.0W30 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 11, 18:0024.2N 124.8W30 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 12, 00:0024.2N 125.7W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 12, 06:0024.1N 126.5W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 12, 12:0023.8N 127.3W25 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 12, 18:0023.6N 128.0W20 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 13, 00:0023.4N 128.8W20 kt1014 mbLow

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.