All storm pages · 2024 Pacific season
Hurricane Kristy 2024
Category 5 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · October 21 to October 27, 2024
Kristy reached Category 5 with 160 mph winds, one of 24 eastern and central Pacific storms to do so since 1949. No other storm of the 2024 eastern and central Pacific season matched its 160 mph peak; the season had 15 storms. Its winds climbed 75 mph in the 24 hours to October 23.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 230 miles south of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
- Tropical storm 260 miles south-southwest of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
- Hurricane 440 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico
- Major hurricane 620 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Peak 945 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico; lowest pressure 926 mb
- No longer tropical (low) 1,015 miles west-southwest of Vicente Guerrero, Baja California, Mexico
- Last record far out at sea, at 19.7°N, 134.1°W
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
In the 2024 season
Storm 13 of 15 in 2024, hurricane 5 of 5; it formed after Eleven and before Lane. Kristy produced 25% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, 230 miles from the center on October 21 (depression stage).
Also peaked at 160 mph
Of 15 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Jova (2023)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