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EASTERN PACIFIC · SEASON MAP

1959 Pacific hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 14 storms · 10 Jun 1959–28 Oct 1959

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1959 Pacific hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 14 storms, colored by the wind category at each observation. Hover or focus a storm in the table to highlight its track.UNITED STATESMEXICOCUBACHINAJAPANPHILIPPINESINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanPhilippine SeaArabian SeaBay of BengalUnnamed: 10 Jun–12 Jun, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 26 Jun–28 Jun, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 16 Jul–22 Jul, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 22 Jul–25 Jul, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 29 Jul–30 Jul, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormDot: 1 Aug–8 Aug, peak 130 kt, Category 4Unnamed: 4 Aug–6 Aug, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 19 Aug–21 Aug, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 27 Aug–29 Aug, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 4 Sep–11 Sep, peak 75 kt, Category 1Unnamed: 21 Sep–26 Sep, peak 75 kt, Category 1Wanda: 26 Sep–27 Sep, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 19 Oct–21 Oct, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 22 Oct–28 Oct, peak 120 kt, Category 4

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 1959 Pacific hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—640
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—460
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—1,440
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—780
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—120
Dot–130Cat 49521,520
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—440
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—410
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—370
Unnamed–75Cat 1—1,810
Unnamed–75Cat 1967770
Wanda–60Tropical storm—400
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—280
Unnamed–120Cat 49581,160

14 storms with an IBTrACS 1959 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 10 Jun 1959, last 28 Oct 1959.

Tropical storms14

Tropical-stage US-agency wind of 34 kt or more

Hurricanes4

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)2

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormDot

130 kt · 150 mph / 241 km/h

Lowest pressure952 hPa

Dot, 3 Aug 1959

Longest track record7.5 days

Unnamed, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind0

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 1959 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 1959 Pacific hurricane season?

The archive records 4 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 14 tropical storms, with 2 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 1959 Pacific hurricane season?

Dot, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 130 kt (Category 4) on 3 Aug 1959, 00:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 952 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 1959?

None. No storm in the 1959 Pacific hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale in the archive.

When did the 1959 Pacific hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 10 Jun 1959 and the last on 28 Oct 1959, from 14 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 1959 Pacific hurricane season?

Dot, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 1 Aug 1959, 21:00 UTC.

METHODOLOGY

Data sources and limitations

The map and totals are generated from NOAA’s IBTrACS v04r01 archive. A storm belongs to this page when the archive lists it in the Eastern Pacific basin for the 1959 season, so a December storm whose track ends in January stays with its season. Storms that cross between basins appear on the page of their archive basin only.

Counts use US-agency one-minute winds during the tropical stage: 34 kt for a tropical storm, 64 kt for hurricane strength and 96 kt for major intensity, on the Saffir–Simpson scale in every basin. Local agencies classify storms differently, and official season summaries can differ from the archive. Accumulated cyclone energy sums squared winds at six-hourly synoptic times, counting observations in the calendar year. Storms with no US-agency wind are mapped but cannot enter the counts.

The map frame is the same for every Eastern Pacific season, so a track that leaves it is cut at the edge. Lines show each storm’s center, not its size, rainfall or flood extent. Coastlines use Natural Earth’s 1:10m land data.

Archive retrieved

NOAA IBTrACS archive · Field documentation

Sources & methodology