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EASTERN PACIFIC · SEASON MAP

2010 Pacific hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 12 storms · 29 May 2010–23 Sept 2010

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY51.5
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2010 Pacific hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 12 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 BengalAgatha: 29 May–30 May, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormBlas: 17 Jun–21 Jun, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 16 Jun–17 Jun, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionCelia: 18 Jun–28 Jun, peak 140 kt, Category 5Darby: 23 Jun–28 Jun, peak 105 kt, Category 3Unnamed: 14 Jul–16 Jul, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionEstelle: 6 Aug–10 Aug, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 20 Aug–21 Aug, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionFrank: 21 Aug–28 Aug, peak 80 kt, Category 1Unnamed: 3 Sep–4 Sep, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionHermine: 3 Sep–9 Sep, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormGeorgette: 20 Sep–23 Sep, peak 35 kt, Tropical storm

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Agatha–40Tropical storm1001260
Unnamed–30Tropical depression100780
Blas–55Tropical storm9941,320
Celia–140Cat 59211,940
Darby–105Cat 39591,410
Unnamed–30Tropical depression10061,070
Estelle–55Tropical storm9941,120
Unnamed–30Tropical depression1003480
Frank–80Cat 19781,320
Unnamed–30Tropical depression1003350
Hermine–60Tropical storm9891,530
Georgette–35Tropical storm999540

12 storms with an IBTrACS 2010 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 29 May 2010, last 23 Sept 2010.

Tropical storms8

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

Hurricanes3

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)2

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 51

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormCelia

140 kt · 161 mph / 259 km/h

Lowest pressure921 hPa

Celia, 25 Jun 2010

Longest track record12.3 days

Celia, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind0

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 2010 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 2010 Pacific hurricane season?

The archive records 3 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 8 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 2010 Pacific hurricane season?

Celia, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 140 kt (Category 5) on 25 Jun 2010, 00:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 921 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 2010?

1 storm in the 2010 Pacific hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale: Celia.

When did the 2010 Pacific hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 29 May 2010 and the last on 23 Sept 2010, from 12 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season?

Celia, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 20 Jun 2010, 18:00 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 2010 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