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Hurricane Kilo 2015
Category 4 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · August 22 to September 11, 2015
Tropical-storm-force winds reached 293 miles from Kilo's center, the third-widest reach among the 386 eastern and central Pacific storms with wind-radius data (kept since 2004). Its hurricane-force winds extended 69 miles from the center, tied for the second-widest hurricane-force field of the 201 eastern and central Pacific hurricanes measured this way since 2004. It lasted 19.75 days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone, tied for the seventh-longest lifespan of the 1,262 eastern and central Pacific storms.
Strength over time
- First record (disturbance) 935 miles southeast of Hilo, Hawaii
- Tropical storm 595 miles west-southwest of Lihue, Hawaii
- Hurricane 935 miles west-southwest of Lihue, Hawaii
- Major hurricane 1,040 miles west-southwest of Lihue, Hawaii
- Peak, 140 mph 1,135 miles west of Lihue, Hawaii; lowest pressure 940 mb
- No longer tropical (extratropical low) far out at sea, at 40.7°N, 147.4°E
- Last record far out at sea, at 43.3°N, 148.3°E
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
More from the record
Its best track runs 5,746 miles from first to last position, the eighth-longest path in the eastern and central Pacific database.
Its winds climbed 65 mph in the 24 hours to August 30.
In the 2015 season
Storm 15 of 31 in 2015, hurricane 11 of 17; it formed after Loke and before Ignacio. Kilo produced 12% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy and ranks ninth by peak wind. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Hilo, Hawaii, 435 miles from the center on August 22 (depression stage).
Also peaked at 140 mph
Of 37 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Iselle (2014)947 mb, landfall in Hawaii
- Odile (2014)918 mb, landfall in Baja California Sur
- Blas (2016)947 mb, no landfall record
- Emilia (2012)945 mb, no landfall record