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EASTERN PACIFIC · SEASON MAP

2022 Pacific hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 17 storms · 28 May 2022–23 Oct 2022

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY98.8
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2022 Pacific hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 17 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: 28 May–31 May, peak 95 kt, Category 2Blas: 14 Jun–19 Jun, peak 75 kt, Category 1Celia: 16 Jun–28 Jun, peak 50 kt, Tropical stormDarby: 9 Jul–17 Jul, peak 120 kt, Category 4Estelle: 15 Jul–21 Jul, peak 75 kt, Category 1Frank: 26 Jul–2 Aug, peak 80 kt, Category 1Georgette: 27 Jul–3 Aug, peak 50 kt, Tropical stormHoward: 6 Aug–10 Aug, peak 75 kt, Category 1Ivette: 13 Aug–16 Aug, peak 35 kt, Tropical stormJavier: 1 Sep–3 Sep, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormKay: 4 Sep–9 Sep, peak 85 kt, Category 2Madeline: 16 Sep–20 Sep, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormLester: 15 Sep–17 Sep, peak 35 kt, Tropical stormNewton: 21 Sep–25 Sep, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormOrlene: 28 Sep–3 Oct, peak 115 kt, Category 4Paine: 3 Oct–5 Oct, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormRoslyn: 20 Oct–23 Oct, peak 115 kt, Category 4

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 2022 Pacific hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Agatha–95Cat 2964530
Blas–75Cat 19781,000
Celia–50Tropical storm9972,520
Darby–120Cat 49532,660
Estelle–75Cat 19851,980
Frank–80Cat 19762,210
Georgette–50Tropical storm9981,600
Howard–75Cat 19831,520
Ivette–35Tropical storm10051,540
Javier–45Tropical storm9991,680
Kay–85Cat 29681,930
Lester–35Tropical storm1005280
Madeline–55Tropical storm9911,880
Newton–55Tropical storm9971,370
Orlene–115Cat 4954760
Paine–40Tropical storm1005430
Roslyn–115Cat 4954950

17 storms with an IBTrACS 2022 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 28 May 2022, last 23 Oct 2022.

Tropical storms17

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

Hurricanes9

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)3

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormDarby

120 kt · 138 mph / 222 km/h

Lowest pressure953 hPa

Darby, 11 Jul 2022

Longest track record14.5 days

Celia, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind0

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 2022 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 2022 Pacific hurricane season?

The archive records 9 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 17 tropical storms, with 3 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 2022 Pacific hurricane season?

Darby, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 120 kt (Category 4) on 11 Jul 2022, 18:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 953 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 2022?

None. No storm in the 2022 Pacific hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale in the archive.

When did the 2022 Pacific hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 28 May 2022 and the last on 23 Oct 2022, from 17 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 2022 Pacific hurricane season?

Agatha, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 29 May 2022, 06:00 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 2022 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