Hurricane John, also known as Typhoon John, was the longest-lasting and the farthest-traveling tropical cyclone ever observed. John formed during the 1994 Pacific hurricane season, and peaked as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale. John barely affected land at all, bringing only minimal effects to the Hawaiian Islands and the United States military base on Johnston Atoll.
About Hurricane John (1994) in brief
Hurricane John, also known as Typhoon John, was the longest-lasting and the farthest-traveling tropical cyclone ever observed. John formed during the 1994 Pacific hurricane season, and peaked as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale. Over the course of its existence, John followed a 7,165-mile path from the eastern Pacific to the western Pacific and back to the central Pacific, lasting 31 days in total. Despite lasting for a full month, John barely affected land at all, bringing only minimal effects to the Hawaiian Islands and the United States military base on Johnston Atoll. The origins of Hurricane John were thought by the U.S. National Hurricane Center to be from a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa on July 25, 1994. The wave subsequently moved across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean without distinction, before it crossed Central America and moved into the Eastern Pacific Ocean on or around August 8. After entering the Central Pacific, John left the area monitored by the NHC and was instead monitored byThe Central Pacific Hurricane Center.
On August 22, John reached its peak intensity, with 1-minute sustained winds of 175 miles per hour and a minimum central pressure of 929 millibars. By September 1, John had weakened to a tropical storm and was nearly motionless just west of the International Date Line. John lingered for six days while performing a multi-day loop while performing counter-clockwise movements. Immediately after crossing the Date Line, John weakened again and became a typhoon and was referred to as Typhoon to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. John was one of a small number of tropical cyclones to be designated as both a hurricane and a Typhoon. It was the first of three basin crosses John would make, the last of which took place on September 14. John’s remnants later affected Alaska, with heavy rains and wind from the outer bands of John affected the islands. The storm slowly weakened from its peak as a hurricane in the face of increasing shear.
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