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Hurricane John 2024

Category 3 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · September 22 to September 27, 2024

John's 120 mph landfall in Guerrero on September 24, 2024 ranks the second-strongest of the 9 storms with a landfall record there. Its winds climbed 75 mph in the 24 hours to September 24. With a peak of 120 mph, it ranked the third-strongest of the 15 storms of the 2024 season. The name John is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired central and eastern North Pacific names.

Track of John (2024) from the best-track record, coloured by strength15°N20°N105°W100°W95°WChilpancingoGuerrero, 120 mphMichoacán, 60 mphPeak 120 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 300 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of John (2024) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 404080120160Sep 23Sep 24Sep 25Sep 26Sep 27mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 175 miles southwest of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
  2. Tropical storm 165 miles southwest of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
  3. Hurricane 100 miles west-southwest of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
  4. Major hurricane 55 miles south-southwest of Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico
  5. Peak 30 miles west of Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico; lowest pressure 956 mb
  6. Landfall Guerrero
  7. Landfall Michoacán: tropical storm, 60 mph, 993 mb
  8. Last record (tropical storm) 35 miles south of Coalcoman, Michoacán, Mexico

Against every Pacific storm since 1949

Peak sustained wind120 mph · tied 199th of 1,26225 mph215 mph
Lowest central pressure956 mb · tied 162nd of 754872 mb1009 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy6.1 · 452nd of 1,1540.185.3
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone5.2 days · tied 534th of 1,2620.0 days29.8 days

In the 2024 season

04080120160200John

Storm 11 of 15 in 2024, hurricane 4 of 5; it formed after Ileana and before Eleven. John produced 7% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of 5 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
Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico24 mi80 mphSeptember 24
Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico31 mi75 mphSeptember 24
Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico32 mi120 mphSeptember 24
Coalcoman, Michoacán, Mexico33 mi40 mphSeptember 27
Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico46 mi60 mphSeptember 27

Every storm within 50 miles of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico

Similar landfalls in Guerrero

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Guerrero came closest to John's 120 mph:

  • Rick (2021)105 mph, October 25, 2021
  • Max (2017)90 mph, September 14, 2017
  • Boris (1996)90 mph, June 29, 1996
  • Otis (2023)160 mph, October 25, 2023

All 9 storms with a landfall record in Guerrero

Also peaked at 120 mph

Of 22 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Flossie (2025)958 mb, no landfall record
  • Darby (2016)958 mb, no landfall record
  • Julio (2014)960 mb, no landfall record
  • Miriam (2012)959 mb, no landfall record