Hurricane Guillermo formed out of a tropical wave on July 30, 1997. It reached hurricane status by August 1 before undergoing rapid intensification. At its peak, GuillerMo was the second strongest known Pacific hurricane. It was the seventh named storm of the 1997 hurricane season, and the first in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
About Hurricane Guillermo (1997) in brief
Hurricane Guillermo formed out of a tropical wave on July 30, 1997, roughly 345 mi south of Salina Cruz, Mexico. The system reached hurricane status by August 1 before undergoing rapid intensification the following day. At the end of this phase, the storm attained its peak intensity as a powerful Category 5 hurricane. The storm began to weaken during the afternoon of August 5 and was downgraded to a tropical storm on August 8. The remnants persisted for more than a week as they tracked towards the northeast and later south and east before being absorbed by a larger extratropical system off the coast of California. Because of its extreme intensity, it produced large swells across the Pacific Ocean, affecting areas from Hawaii to coastal Mexico. Along the American Pacific coast, three people drowned amid high waves, two in Baja California and one in California. At its peak, Guiller Mo was the second strongest known Pacific hurricane on record; however, it has since been surpassed by seven other storms, including Linda later that year.
The effects of GuillerMo were not deemed severe enough to justify retirement of its name. It was the seventh named storm of the 1997 hurricane season, and the first in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the ninth most intense Pacific hurricane ever recorded, with a barometric pressure of 919 hPa. It has also been the second most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, with winds of up to 160 mph (250 km/h) The storm never threatened any major landmass, resulting in little impact on land, but it produced high waves that killed three people in the Baja Peninsula, Baja, and California. It also caused the deaths of one man and one woman in the Mexican state of Baja Caribbean and one man in the state of Honduras in the United States. It became the first tropical storm to make landfall in the Pacific in more than 20 years, and was the last to do so in 1997.
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