All storm pages · 1973 Pacific season
Hurricane Ava 1973
Category 5 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · June 2 to June 12, 1973
Ava's central pressure fell to 915 mb, the sixth-lowest among the 754 eastern and central Pacific storms with a recorded pressure. It reached Category 5 with 160 mph winds, one of 24 eastern and central Pacific storms to do so since 1949. No other storm of the 1973 eastern and central Pacific season matched its 160 mph peak; the season had 12 storms.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 265 miles south-southwest of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
- Tropical storm 265 miles southwest of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
- Hurricane 225 miles south of Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Major hurricane 370 miles south-southwest of Petatlán, Guerrero, Mexico
- Peak 565 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico
- Last record (tropical depression) far out at sea, at 17.0°N, 131.0°W
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
In the 1973 season
Storm 1 of 12 in 1973, hurricane 1 of 7; it formed before Bernice. Ava produced 25% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. See the season.
Closest to land
The best-track file has no landfall records for Pacific storms of 1973, so the track itself shows where this storm went. Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico, 222 miles from the center on June 4 (Category 1 hurricane stage).
Also peaked at 160 mph
Of 15 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Emilia (1994)926 mb, no landfall record
- Gilma (1994)920 mb, no landfall record
- Guillermo (1997)919 mb, no landfall record
- Oliwa (1997)no pressure recorded, no landfall record