Hurricane Gilma (2024)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

August 18, 2024 to August 29, 2024

Peak strength

Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)

Lowest pressure

950 mb (28.05 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 392 km (244 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

27.9

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

110 nmi (204 km, 127 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)

Overall size

260 nmi (482 km, 299 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

140 kt (161 mph)

Fastest the center moved

13 kt (15 mph)

Identifier

EP072024

The sources count different things and are not added together.

• Tropical Storm AlettaEastern Pacific · 2024Tropical Storm35 kt · 1005 mb
• Tropical Storm BudEastern Pacific · 2024Tropical Storm50 kt · 1001 mb
• Hurricane CarlottaEastern Pacific · 2024Cat 180 kt · 979 mb
• Tropical Storm DanielEastern Pacific · 2024Tropical Storm35 kt · 1005 mb
• Tropical Storm EmiliaEastern Pacific · 2024Tropical Storm60 kt · 988 mb
• Tropical Storm FabioEastern Pacific · 2024Tropical Storm55 kt · 996 mb
• Hurricane HoneEastern Pacific · 2024Cat 175 kt · 988 mb
• Tropical Storm HectorEastern Pacific · 2024Tropical Storm50 kt · 998 mb
• Tropical Storm IleanaEastern Pacific · 2024Tropical Storm45 kt · 997 mb
• Hurricane JohnEastern Pacific · 2024 · 29 deathsCat 3105 kt · 956 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 2024 · 2 deathsTropical Storm35 kt · 1001 mb
• Hurricane KristyEastern Pacific · 2024Cat 5140 kt · 926 mb
• Tropical Storm LaneEastern Pacific · 2024Tropical Storm40 kt · 1004 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2024Tropical Depression30 kt · 1006 mb

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.

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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live
• Best track as KMZ, National Hurricane Center
• Best track as a shapefile, National Hurricane Center