Hurricane John (2024)
Hurricane John reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between September 22, 2024 and September 27, 2024, with a lowest pressure of 956 mb, and made landfall. It killed 29 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane John, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2024 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
- September 22, 2024 to September 27, 2024
- Peak strength
- Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 956 mb (28.23 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 6.1
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
- Overall size
- 180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 120 kt (138 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 14 kt (16 mph)
- Identifier
- EP102024
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
29 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.
Landfalls
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 03:15 | Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero, Mexico, 46 km away | 16.6N 98.9W | 105 kt (121 mph) | 956 mb |
| Sep 27, 16:00 | Coalcomán de Vázquez Pallares, Michoacan, Mexico, 65 km away | 18.2N 103.1W | 50 kt (58 mph) | 993 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 12:00 | 13.8N 98.6W | 25 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 22, 18:00 | 13.9N 98.6W | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 23, 00:00 | 14.0N 98.6W | 35 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 23, 06:00 | 14.2N 98.5W | 40 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 23, 12:00 | 14.6N 98.4W | 60 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 23, 18:00 | 15.2N 98.4W | 80 kt | 977 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 24, 00:00 | 15.9N 98.6W | 100 kt | 960 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 24, 03:15 landfall | 16.6N 98.9W | 105 kt | 956 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 24, 06:00 | 16.9N 99.3W | 85 kt | 973 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 24, 12:00 | 17.5N 100.3W | 45 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 24, 18:00 | 17.4N 100.7W | 30 kt | 1003 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 25, 00:00 | 17.1N 101.0W | 30 kt | 1001 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 25, 06:00 | 16.8N 101.3W | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Low |
| Sep 25, 12:00 | 16.4N 101.5W | 35 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 25, 18:00 | 16.7N 101.7W | 45 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 26, 00:00 | 16.9N 102.0W | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 26, 06:00 | 17.0N 102.3W | 60 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 26, 12:00 | 17.1N 102.5W | 65 kt | 979 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 26, 18:00 | 17.3N 102.7W | 65 kt | 979 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 27, 00:00 | 17.5N 102.9W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 27, 06:00 | 17.8N 102.9W | 55 kt | 988 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 27, 12:00 | 18.0N 102.9W | 50 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 27, 16:00 landfall | 18.2N 103.1W | 50 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 27, 18:00 | 18.3N 103.2W | 35 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
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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.