All storm pages · 1988 Pacific season
Hurricane Iva 1988
Category 2 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · August 5 to August 13, 1988
With a peak of 105 mph, Iva ranked tied for the fourth-strongest of the 22 storms of the 1988 season. It produced 8% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. Its winds rose 35 mph in the 24 hours to August 7. The name Iva is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired central and eastern North Pacific names.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 175 miles south of Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Tropical storm 225 miles south-southwest of Petatlán, Guerrero, Mexico
- Hurricane 280 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico
- Peak 340 miles south of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico; lowest pressure 968 mb
- Last record (tropical depression) 910 miles west-southwest of Ciudad Constitución, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
In the 1988 season
Storm 12 of 22 in 1988, hurricane 4 of 7; it formed after Hector and before Pacific Storm 17 of 1988. See the season.
Closest to land
The best-track file has no landfall records for Pacific storms of 1988, so the track itself shows where this storm went. Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico, 170 miles from the center on August 5 (depression stage).
Also peaked at 105 mph
Of 39 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Jova (1987)no pressure recorded, no landfall record
- Peke (1987)no pressure recorded, no landfall record
- Genevieve (1990)970 mb, no landfall record
- Waldo (1985)no pressure recorded, no landfall record