All storm pages · 1997 Pacific season
Hurricane Guillermo 1997
Category 5 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · July 30 to August 15, 1997
Guillermo's central pressure fell to 919 mb, the tenth-lowest among the 754 eastern and central Pacific storms with a recorded pressure. Its best track runs 7,666 miles from first to last position, the second-longest path in the eastern and central Pacific database. It reached Category 5 with 160 mph winds, one of 24 eastern and central Pacific storms to do so since 1949.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 315 miles south-southwest of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
- Tropical storm 270 miles south of Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Hurricane 350 miles south-southwest of Tecpan, Guerrero, Mexico
- Major hurricane 440 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico
- Peak 745 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- No longer tropical (extratropical low) far out at sea, at 41.8°N, 161.0°W
- Last record 335 miles west-southwest of Eureka, California
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
More from the record
Its winds climbed 60 mph in the 24 hours to August 3.
In the 1997 season
Storm 10 of 24 in 1997, hurricane 4 of 11; it formed after Central Pacific Storm 1 of 1997 and before Hilda. Guillermo produced 14% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy and ranks joint third by peak wind. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, 267 miles from the center on July 31 (tropical storm stage).
Also peaked at 160 mph
Of 14 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Emilia (1994)926 mb, no landfall record
- Gilma (1994)920 mb, no landfall record
- Elida (2002)921 mb, no landfall record
- Hernan (2002)921 mb, no landfall record