Hurricane Lowell (2026)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

August 25, 2026 to September 11, 2026

Peak strength

Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)

Lowest pressure

922 mb (27.23 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 103 km (64 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

44.3

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)

Overall size

360 nmi (667 km, 414 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

170 kt (196 mph)

Fastest the center moved

20 kt (23 mph)

Identifier

EP122026

Radar at PHKI as it neared land, Sep 8, 06:00 UTC

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