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Hurricane Erick 2025

Category 4 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · June 17 to June 20, 2025

No storm in the record came ashore in Oaxaca with stronger winds than Erick's 125 mph landfall on June 19, 2025; 15 storms have a landfall record there. Its winds climbed 65 mph in the 24 hours to June 19. With a peak of 140 mph, it ranked the second-strongest of the 20 storms of the 2025 season.

Track of Erick (2025) from the best-track record, coloured by strength10°N15°N100°W95°W90°WAcapulcoChilpancingoOaxaca, 125 mphPeak 140 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 3Category 400 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Erick (2025) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 504080120160Jun 17Jun 18Jun 19Jun 20mph
  1. First record (disturbance) 235 miles south-southwest of San Jose, Escuintla, Guatemala
  2. Tropical storm 215 miles south-southwest of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
  3. Hurricane 205 miles south-southeast of Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico
  4. Major hurricane 60 miles south-southwest of Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico
  5. Peak 40 miles southwest of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico; lowest pressure 944 mb
  6. Landfall Oaxaca
  7. Last record (tropical depression) 40 miles north-northeast of Atoyac, Guerrero, Mexico

Against every Pacific storm since 1949

Peak sustained wind140 mph · tied 84th of 1,26225 mph215 mph
Lowest central pressure944 mb · tied 89th of 754872 mb1009 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy6.7 · 424th of 1,1540.185.3
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone3.0 days · tied 878th of 1,2620.0 days29.8 days

In the 2025 season

04080120160Erick

Storm 5 of 20 in 2025, hurricane 2 of 11; it formed after Dalila and before Flossie. Erick produced 5% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of 7 towns or cities of 10,000 people or more while the system was tropical. Distances are to the interpolated track line, not the storm's edge.

PlaceClosestWind thenDate
Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico14 mi115 mphJune 19
Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico17 mi60 mphJune 19
Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico38 mi140 mphJune 19
Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico38 mi65 mphJune 19
Atoyac, Guerrero, Mexico38 mi40 mphJune 19
Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, Mexico42 mi30 mphJune 20
Tecpan, Guerrero, Mexico45 mi30 mphJune 19

Every storm within 50 miles of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico

Similar landfalls in Oaxaca

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Oaxaca came closest to Erick's 125 mph:

  • Pauline (1997)110 mph, October 9, 1997
  • Agatha (2022)105 mph, May 30, 2022
  • Carlotta (2012)105 mph, June 16, 2012
  • Rick (1997)85 mph, November 10, 1997

All 15 storms with a landfall record in Oaxaca

Also peaked at 140 mph

Of 37 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Hilary (2023)940 mb, landfall in Baja California
  • Lidia (2023)942 mb, landfall in Jalisco
  • Darby (2022)953 mb, no landfall record
  • Marie (2020)945 mb, no landfall record