User:CooperScience/Hurricane Hector
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Hurricane Hector is currently an intense tropical cyclone threatening the Hawaiian Islands, and is the strongest tropical cyclone to form in or cross into the central Pacific Ocean since Hurricane Ioke in 2006. The eighth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, Hector developed from an area of low pressure that formed several hundred miles off the Mexican coast on July 28. The low gradually organized, becoming a tropical depression on July 31. The depression quickly strengthened into Tropical Storm Hector early the following day. Hector continued to quickly organize, entering a period of rapid intensification on August 2 that brought it to a high-end Category 2 hurricane that afternoon. After undergoing fluctuations in intensity as it continued westward, Hector developed a small and well-defined eye as it strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane early on August 4. Early the following day, Hector strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane. The hurricane briefly weakened after undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle, but it restrengthened afterward to reach its peak intensity as a powerful Category 4 hurricane.
Category 4 major hurricane (SSHWS/NWS) | |
Formed | July 31, 2018 |
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Dissipated | Currently Active |
Highest winds | 1-minute sustained: 155 mph (250 km/h) |
Lowest pressure | 936 mbar (hPa); 27.64 inHg |
Fatalities | None |
Damage | None |
Areas affected | Hawaiian Islands |
Part of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season | |