Hurricane Karina (2026)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

August 25, 2026 to September 7, 2026

Peak strength

Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)

Lowest pressure

940 mb (27.76 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 1010 km (628 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

31.3

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

260 nmi (482 km, 299 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

35 nmi (65 km, 40 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)

Overall size

340 nmi (630 km, 391 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

150 kt (173 mph)

Fastest the center moved

16 kt (18 mph)

Identifier

EP112026

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

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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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.

• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live