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Hurricane Hector was a powerful and long-lasting tropical cyclone that traversed the Pacific Ocean during late July and August 2018. Hector was the eighth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane [nb 1] of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season. [3]
The name Hector has been used for nine tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean: Hurricane Hector (1978) – a Category 4 hurricane; Hurricane Hector (1982) – a Category 1 hurricane; Hurricane Hector (1988) – a Category 4 hurricane; strongest of its season; Tropical Storm Hector (1994) – a tropical storm that affected the Baja ...
The 2018 Pacific hurricane season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in which tropical cyclones form in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The season officially started on May 15 in the eastern Pacific—east of 140°W—and began on June 1 in the central Pacific—the region between the International Date Line and 140°W, and ended on November 30.
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Farther to the east, Tropical Storm Hector also gained strength Monday. Hector had top sustained winds of 50 mph (65 kph). It was centered about 1,125 miles (1,805 kilometers) west-southwest of ...
Tropical Storm Hector expected to strengthen in the eastern Pacific. To the east of Hurricane Gilma is Tropical Storm Hector, the latest storm to break out in the Pacific.
A trough of low pressure, formed from the remnants of Hurricane Ernesto in the Atlantic, began to organize, and by the evening hours of August 11, the NHC declared the formation of Tropical Depression Eight-E. [20] The next day, the depression intensified to Tropical Storm Hector, the eighth named storm of the 2012 season. [21]
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...