Hurricane Kristy (2024)

Hurricane Kristy reached Category 5 in the Eastern Pacific between October 21, 2024 and October 29, 2024, with a lowest pressure of 926 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Kristy, 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.

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The storm

Basin: Eastern Pacific
Dates: October 21, 2024 to October 29, 2024
Peak strength: Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
Lowest pressure: 926 mb (27.34 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 347 km (216 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 21.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 140 nmi (259 km, 161 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: 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size: 300 nmi (556 km, 345 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 170 kt (196 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier: EP122024

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Oct 21, 12:00	13.5N 100.0W	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 21, 18:00	13.4N 101.4W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 22, 00:00	13.7N 102.7W	40 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 22, 06:00	14.2N 104.1W	45 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 22, 12:00	14.5N 105.8W	50 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 22, 18:00	14.6N 107.6W	60 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 23, 00:00	14.7N 109.2W	70 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
Oct 23, 06:00	14.5N 111.1W	85 kt	973 mb	Hurricane
Oct 23, 12:00	14.4N 113.0W	105 kt	958 mb	Hurricane
Oct 23, 18:00	14.1N 114.7W	125 kt	942 mb	Hurricane
Oct 24, 00:00	14.2N 116.4W	135 kt	936 mb	Hurricane
Oct 24, 06:00	14.1N 118.2W	130 kt	938 mb	Hurricane
Oct 24, 12:00	14.0N 119.7W	135 kt	932 mb	Hurricane
Oct 24, 18:00	14.1N 121.0W	140 kt	926 mb	Hurricane
Oct 25, 00:00	14.3N 122.2W	140 kt	926 mb	Hurricane
Oct 25, 06:00	14.9N 123.4W	130 kt	932 mb	Hurricane
Oct 25, 12:00	15.5N 124.3W	115 kt	948 mb	Hurricane
Oct 25, 18:00	16.2N 125.4W	105 kt	958 mb	Hurricane
Oct 26, 00:00	17.1N 126.4W	95 kt	965 mb	Hurricane
Oct 26, 06:00	18.1N 127.2W	85 kt	972 mb	Hurricane
Oct 26, 12:00	19.2N 128.1W	70 kt	982 mb	Hurricane
Oct 26, 18:00	20.2N 128.9W	60 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 27, 00:00	21.1N 129.3W	55 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 27, 06:00	21.7N 129.5W	50 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 27, 12:00	22.5N 129.6W	45 kt	1003 mb	Low
Oct 27, 18:00	22.5N 129.7W	35 kt	1005 mb	Low
Oct 28, 00:00	22.3N 130.2W	35 kt	1007 mb	Low
Oct 28, 06:00	21.8N 130.8W	30 kt	1008 mb	Low
Oct 28, 12:00	21.1N 131.6W	30 kt	1009 mb	Low
Oct 28, 18:00	20.6N 132.8W	25 kt	1009 mb	Low
Oct 29, 00:00	19.7N 134.1W	25 kt	1009 mb	Low

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2024

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.