Tropical Storm Ileana was a small tropical cyclone that affected western Mexico in early August 2018. The storm originated from a tropical wave that the National Hurricane Center began monitoring on July 26. It was the ninth named storm of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, and the 11th tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean overall. The system paralleled the Pacific coast for much of its existence, causing a total of eight deaths in Mexico.
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Tropical Storm Ileana was a small tropical cyclone that affected western Mexico in early August 2018, causing multiple deaths and flooding. The storm originated from a tropical wave that the National Hurricane Center began monitoring on July 26. The wave traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with no thunderstorm activity, before crossing into the Eastern Pacific Ocean early on August 4. Rapidly developing, the disturbance organized into a tropical depression on the evening of the same day. Initially, the depression was well-defined, but it soon degraded due to northerly wind shear. Despite the unfavorable conditions, the system began to strengthen on August 5, becoming Tropical Storm Ilana. IleANA reached its peak intensity on August 6 at 12: 00 UTC with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph and a minimum central pressure of 998 mbar, while located approximately 115 mi southwest of Acapulco.
The system paralleled the Pacific coast for much of its existence, causing a total of eight deaths in Mexico; four people were killed in Guerrero and another four died in Chiapas. It was the ninth named storm of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, and the 11th tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean overall. The nearby Hurricane John disrupted the circulation of the storm over the next day, before absorbing it on August 7. It prompted the issuance of multiple watches and warnings along the coast of Baja California Sur and the Pacific Coast of Mexico. As a precaution, the Government of Mexico issued a hurricane watch for the country’s Pacific coast from Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, to Cabo Corrientes.
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