Hurricane Lidia (2023)
Hurricane Lidia reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between October 3, 2023 and October 11, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 942 mb, and made landfall. It killed 3 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Lidia, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2023 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- October 3, 2023 to October 11, 2023
- Peak strength
- Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 942 mb (27.82 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 12.0
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 300 nmi (556 km, 345 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 145 kt (167 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 42 kt (48 mph)
- Identifier
- EP152023
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 00:00 | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, 64 km away | 20.1N 105.5W | 120 kt (138 mph) | 942 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 00:00 | 11.2N 105.8W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 3, 06:00 | 11.5N 106.4W | 35 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 3, 12:00 | 11.9N 107.0W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 3, 18:00 | 12.5N 107.4W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 4, 00:00 | 13.2N 107.8W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 4, 06:00 | 13.9N 108.2W | 40 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 4, 12:00 | 14.6N 108.6W | 45 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 4, 18:00 | 15.1N 108.8W | 45 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 5, 00:00 | 15.4N 109.0W | 45 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 5, 06:00 | 15.6N 109.2W | 45 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 5, 12:00 | 15.8N 109.4W | 50 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 5, 18:00 | 15.9N 109.6W | 50 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 6, 00:00 | 16.0N 109.8W | 55 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 6, 06:00 | 16.1N 110.1W | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 6, 12:00 | 16.2N 110.5W | 60 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 6, 18:00 | 16.2N 110.9W | 60 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 7, 00:00 | 16.2N 111.3W | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 7, 06:00 | 16.1N 111.7W | 55 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 7, 12:00 | 16.0N 112.0W | 55 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 7, 18:00 | 16.0N 112.2W | 55 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 00:00 | 16.0N 112.4W | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 06:00 | 16.3N 112.6W | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 12:00 | 16.7N 112.8W | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 18:00 | 17.3N 112.8W | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 00:00 | 17.8N 112.7W | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 06:00 | 18.1N 112.4W | 55 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 12:00 | 18.1N 112.0W | 55 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 18:00 | 17.8N 111.4W | 65 kt | 985 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 10, 00:00 | 18.1N 110.6W | 70 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 10, 06:00 | 18.4N 109.7W | 75 kt | 979 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 10, 12:00 | 18.8N 108.5W | 80 kt | 973 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 10, 18:00 | 19.3N 107.1W | 105 kt | 952 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 11, 00:00 landfall | 20.1N 105.5W | 120 kt | 942 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 11, 06:00 | 21.7N 103.5W | 60 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 11, 12:00 | 24.5N 100.5W | 20 kt | 1004 mb | Low |
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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.