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Hurricane Jova 2023
Category 5 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · September 4 to September 10, 2023
Within 24 hours ending September 7, Jova's winds rose by 90 mph (80 knots), the fifth-largest one-day gain in the eastern and central Pacific record. It reached Category 5 with 160 mph winds, one of 24 eastern and central Pacific storms to do so since 1949. Its lowest pressure, 926 mb, was tied for the second-lowest of the 114 eastern and central Pacific storms of the 2020s with a recorded pressure.
Strength over time
- First record (low) 375 miles south-southwest of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
- Tropical storm 455 miles south-southwest of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico
- Hurricane 505 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico
- Major hurricane 545 miles west-southwest of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico
- Peak 550 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- No longer tropical (low) 810 miles southwest of Vicente Guerrero, Baja California, Mexico
- Last record 980 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
In the 2023 season
Storm 11 of 20 in 2023, hurricane 7 of 10; it formed after Irwin and before Twelve. Jova produced 10% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy and ranks second by peak wind. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Petatlán, Guerrero, Mexico, 396 miles from the center on September 4 (depression stage).
Also peaked at 160 mph
Of 15 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Kristy (2024)926 mb, no landfall record
- Lane (2018)926 mb, no landfall record
- Walaka (2018)921 mb, no landfall record
- Willa (2018)925 mb, landfall in Sinaloa