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Pacific Storm 10 of 1957 1957

Category 4 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · October 20 to October 22, 1957

Within 24 hours ending October 21, Pacific Storm 10 of 1957's winds rose by 110 mph (95 knots), the second-largest one-day gain in the eastern and central Pacific record. No other storm of the 1957 eastern and central Pacific season matched the storm's 140 mph peak; the season had 13 storms. The storm produced 3% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy.

Track of Pacific Storm 10 of 1957 from the best-track record, coloured by strength15°N20°N25°N115°W110°W105°W100°WMazatlánLa CruzPeak 140 mphFirst recordDepressionTropical stormCategory 400 and 12 UTC

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Pacific Storm 10 of 1957 over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 504080120160Oct 21Oct 22mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 510 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
  2. Tropical storm 305 miles south of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
  3. Hurricane 175 miles southeast of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
  4. Major hurricane 175 miles southeast of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
  5. Peak 175 miles southeast of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
  6. Last record (tropical depression) 40 miles southwest of Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico

Against every Pacific storm since 1949

Peak sustained wind140 mph · tied 84th of 1,26225 mph215 mph
Accumulated cyclone energy3.5 · tied 622nd of 1,1540.185.3
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone2.0 days · tied 1031st of 1,2620.0 days29.8 days

In the 1957 season

04080120160this storm

Storm 12 of 13 in 1957, hurricane 8 of 9; it formed after Pacific Storm 9 of 1957 and before Nina. See the season.

Places the center passed

The best-track file has no landfall records for Pacific storms of 1957, so the track itself shows where this storm went. The center came within 50 miles of 4 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
Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico22 mi105 mphOctober 22
La Cruz, Sinaloa, Mexico22 mi75 mphOctober 22
Villa Unión, Sinaloa, Mexico34 mi100 mphOctober 22
Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico42 mi30 mphOctober 22

Every storm within 50 miles of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico

Also peaked at 140 mph

Of 37 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Pacific Storm 12 of 1959958 mb, landfall in Colima
  • Denise (1971)951 mb, no landfall record
  • Doreen (1973)968 mb, no landfall record
  • Emily (1973)972 mb, no landfall record