Meteorological history of Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and the second-most intense worldwide in terms of barometric pressure. The storm developed from a disturbance near the Gulf of Tehuantepec in mid-October 2015. Patricia grew from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours. It made landfall in a significantly weakened state near Cuixmala, Jalisco, on October 23. Patricia’s exceptional intensity prompted the retirement of its name in April 2016.

About Meteorological history of Hurricane Patricia in brief

Hurricane Patricia was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and the second-most intense worldwide in terms of barometric pressure. It was the twenty-fourth named storm of the annual hurricane season. The storm developed from a disturbance near the Gulf of Tehuantepec in mid-October 2015. Patricia grew from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours. It made landfall in a significantly weakened state near Cuixmala, Jalisco, on October 23. Patricia’s exceptional intensity prompted the retirement of its name in April 2016. The National Hurricane Center ultimately estimated Patricia to have acquired winds of 215 mph and pressure of 872 mbar. This ranked it just below Typhoon Tip of 1979 as themost intense tropicalcyclone on record. It is the strongest recorded landfalling Pacific hurricane with winds estimated at 150 mph. Within 24  hours of moving ashore, Patricia degraded into a tropical depression and dissipated soon thereafter late on October 24. The system is estimated to have become a tropical. depression, assigned the identifier Twenty-E, by 06: 00 UTC. Upon its designation, the depression was situated roughly 205 mi south-southeast of Salina Cruz, Mexico. The depression achieved tropical storm status on October 21; the National Hurricane. Center assigned it the name Patricia accordingly. On October 22, Patricia moved through a region of drier, more stable, cool air and over relatively sea surface temperatures of 87°F (88°C) The system unraveled substantially, with the banding features of the cyclone dissipating and the low-level circulation becoming poorly defined and the storm becoming a poorly defined low- level hurricane.

It became a tropical hurricane on October 23; it was the strongest tropical hurricane to make landfall in the Pacific Ocean since Typhoon Tip in 1979. It also featured the highest one-minute maximum sustained winds ever recorded by a tropical cyclones. It weakened to a tropical tropical storm on October 24; it is now a remnant low-pressure system in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It has been named Patricia by the U.S. Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service. The tropical storm is no longer classified as a hurricane due to a lack of hurricane-force winds and other hurricane-related hazards. It remains the most powerful tropical storm in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, with sustained winds of up to 150mph (240 km/h) and gusts up to 100 mph (160 m/h). It is also the strongest landfalling hurricane in the western Pacific Ocean in the last 50 years, with winds as high as 150 mph (165 mph) The storm is the second most intense in the history of the tropical hurricane season, behind Typhoon Tip. The most powerful hurricane to hit the Pacific Coast of North America, Typhoon Tip made landfall on October 25, 2013. It dissipated on October 26, 2015, after making landfall in Mexico.

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