All storm pages · 2014 Pacific season
Hurricane Marie 2014
Category 5 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · August 22 to August 28, 2014
Marie's central pressure fell to 918 mb, tied for the seventh-lowest among the 754 eastern and central Pacific storms with a recorded pressure. Tropical-storm-force winds reached 311 miles from its center, the second-widest reach among the 386 eastern and central Pacific storms with wind-radius data (kept since 2004). It reached Category 5 with 160 mph winds, one of 24 eastern and central Pacific storms to do so since 1949.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 270 miles south-southwest of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Tropical storm 295 miles south of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
- Hurricane 340 miles southwest of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico
- Major hurricane 400 miles west-southwest of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico
- Peak 500 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- No longer tropical (low) 855 miles southwest of Santa Maria, California
- Last record 1,120 miles west-southwest of Ukiah, California
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
More from the record
Its winds climbed 70 mph in the 24 hours to August 24.
In the 2014 season
Storm 14 of 23 in 2014, hurricane 9 of 16; it formed after Lowell and before Norbert. Marie produced 9% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy and ranks joint first by peak wind. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, 270 miles from the center on August 22 (depression stage).
Also peaked at 160 mph
Of 14 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Celia (2010)921 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