2006 Pacific hurricane season

Tropical depression
Duration	June 3 – June 5
Peak intensity	35 mph (55 km/h) (1-min) 1005 mbar (hPa)

Tropical storm
Duration	May 27 – May 30
Peak intensity	45 mph (75 km/h) (1-min) 1002 mbar (hPa)

2006 Pacific hurricane season
	Season summary map
First storm formed	May 27, 2006
Last storm dissipated	November 20, 2006
Strongest storm	Ioke – 915 mbar (hPa) (27.03 inHg), 160 mph (260 km/h)
Total storms	18 – East; 1 – Central
Major hurricanes (Cat. 3 )	5 – East; 1 – Central
Total fatalities	15
Total damage	$170.8 million (2006 USD)
	Pacific hurricane seasons; 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

The 2006 Pacific hurricane season was an above normal hurricane season with 19 named storms of 11 which were hurricanes and 6 were major hurricanes it was the most active season since 2000 Pacific hurricane season It officially began May 15, 2006 in the eastern Pacific, designated as the area east of 140°W, and began on June 1 2006 in the central Pacific, which is between the International Date Line and 140°W. Both seasons officially ended on November 30, 2006. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the eastern Pacific basin.

Storms

Tropical Storm Aletta

On May 27 Tropical Depression One-E formed. It became Tropical Storm Aletta later on. Aletta stalled offshore Mexico causing minor damage. Tropical Storm Aletta weakened to a tropical depression and died on May 30.^[1]

Tropical Depression Two-E

Two-E formed off shore Mexico on June 3. It died 2 days later. Two-E produced 15 inches of rain in Mexico before it died.^[2]

Hurricane Bud

Category 3 hurricane

Duration	July 11 – July 16
Peak intensity	125 mph (205 km/h) (1-min) 953 mbar (hPa)

Bud was a Category 3 storm. It rapidly strengthened and then weakened just as fast.

Hurricane Carlota

Category 1 hurricane

Duration	July 12 – July 16
Peak intensity	85 mph (140 km/h) (1-min) 981 mbar (hPa)

Carlota caused light rain in Mexico but no damage was reported. It was a Category 1 storm.

Hurricane Daniel

Category 4 hurricane

Duration	July 16 – July 26
Peak intensity	150 mph (240 km/h) (1-min) 933 mbar (hPa)

Daniel was a long lived Major hurricane that Affected Hawaii with some rain. It peaked as a Category 4. It was the second strongest storm this year.

Tropical Storm Emilia

Tropical storm

Duration	July 21 – July 28
Peak intensity	65 mph (100 km/h) (1-min) 990 mbar (hPa)

It caused some rain in Mexico, causing minor damage.

Tropical Storm Fabio

Tropical storm

Duration	July 31 – August 3
Peak intensity	50 mph (85 km/h) (1-min) 1000 mbar (hPa)

Fabio caused heavy rainfall in Hawaii.

Tropical Storm Gilma

Tropical storm

Duration	August 1 – August 3
Peak intensity	40 mph (65 km/h) (1-min) 1004 mbar (hPa)

Gilma produced light rain in Mexico. It was also the weakest storm so far.

Hurricane Hector

Category 2 hurricane

Duration	August 15 – August 23
Peak intensity	110 mph (175 km/h) (1-min) 966 mbar (hPa)

Hector was a Category 2 hurricane. It made it to the Central Pacific.

Hurricane Ioke

Category 5 hurricane

Duration	August 20 – August 27
Peak intensity	160 mph (260 km/h) (1-min) 915 mbar (hPa)

Ioke was the strongest hurricane ever in the Central Pacific that threated the Johnson Atoll and Wake Island. It formed on august 20. Ioke rapidly became a major hurricane 36 hours later. Ioke went extratropical on September 6. Damage was nearly $100 million. Ioke was retired at the end of the year. It also caused heavy rain in Alaska. Ioke is the most intense storm ever in the central Pacific and the only Category 5 storm that formed in the basin.

Hurricane Illena

Category 3 hurricane

Duration	August 21 – August 27
Peak intensity	120 mph (195 km/h) (1-min) 955 mbar (hPa)

Illena killed one person in Mexico. It peaked as a Cateogory 3 storm.

Hurricane John

Category 4 hurricane

Duration	August 28 – September 4
Peak intensity	135 mph (215 km/h) (1-min) 948 mbar (hPa)

John started as Tropical Depression Eleven-E and later on became a tropical storm and then a hurricane. The hurricane peaked as a Category 4. John killed 5 when it hit Baja California as a Category 2 storm on September 1. Hurricane John died on September 4.^[3]

Hurricane Kristy

Category 1 hurricane

Duration	August 30 – September 8
Peak intensity	80 mph (130 km/h) (1-min) 985 mbar (hPa)

Kristy was a Category 1 hurricane that was outflowed by Hurricane John.

Hurricane Lane

Category 3 hurricane

Duration	September 13 – September 17
Peak intensity	125 mph (205 km/h) (1-min) 952 mbar (hPa)

Lane caused severe damage in Mexico, when it hit there as a Category 3 major hurricane. Lane killed 4 people and left $203 million in damage.

Tropical Storm Miriam

Tropical storm

Duration	September 16 – September 18
Peak intensity	45 mph (75 km/h) (1-min) 999 mbar (hPa)

Tropical Depression Two-C

Tropical depression

Duration	September 18 – September 20
Peak intensity	35 mph (55 km/h) (1-min) 1007 mbar (hPa)

Tropical Depression Three-C

Tropical depression

Duration	September 26 – September 27
Peak intensity	35 mph (55 km/h) (1-min) 1007 mbar (hPa)

Three-C was a short lived tropical depression that started several hundred miles southwest of Hawaii. It died the next day while no where near any land.^[4]

Tropical Storm Norman

Tropical storm

Duration	October 9 – October 15
Peak intensity	50 mph (85 km/h) (1-min) 1000 mbar (hPa)

Norman struck Mexico as a tropical depression, causing minor damage.

Tropical Storm Olivia

Tropical storm

Duration	October 9 – October 12
Peak intensity	45 mph (75 km/h) (1-min) 1000 mbar (hPa)

Olivia did not affect land.

Tropical Depression Four-C

Tropical depression

Duration	October 13 – October 14
Peak intensity	35 mph (55 km/h) (1-min) 1007 mbar (hPa)

Four-C was a short lived tropical depression. It formed on October 13 and died the next day. The remaims of Four-C caused heavy rain in Hawaii.

Hurricane Paul

Category 2 hurricane

Duration	October 21 – October 26
Peak intensity	105 mph (165 km/h) (1-min) 970 mbar (hPa)

Paul was a Cateogory 2 hurricane that killed 4 in Mexico.

Tropical Depression Eighteen-E

Tropical depression

Duration	October 26 – October 27
Peak intensity	35 mph (55 km/h) (1-min) 1007 mbar (hPa)

Tropical Storm Rosa

Tropical storm

Duration	November 8 – November 10
Peak intensity	40 mph (65 km/h) (1-min) 1002 mbar (hPa)

Rosa produced light rain to Mexico in November.

Tropical Depression Twenty-E

Tropical depression

Duration	November 11 – November 11
Peak intensity	35 mph (55 km/h) (1-min) 1007 mbar (hPa)

Tropical Depression Twenty-E formed and died on the same day, November 11. Twenty-E did not affect any land.^[5]

Hurricane Sergio

Category 2 hurricane

Duration	November 13 – November 20
Peak intensity	110 mph (175 km/h) (1-min) 965 mbar (hPa)

Sergio was also a Cateogory 2 storm. It was also the strongest November storm.

Storm names

The following names were used for named storms that formed in the northeast Pacific in 2006.^[6] This is the same list that was used in the 2000 season. There were no names retired from the northeast Pacific list. Therefore, the same list was reused in the 2012 season.

Aletta
Bud
Carlotta
Daniel
Emilia
Fabio
Gilma
Hector

Ileana
John
Kristy
Lane
Miriam
Norman
Olivia
Paul

Rosa
Sergio
Tara (unused)
Vicente (unused)
Willa (unused)
Xavier (unused)
Yolanda (unused)
Zeke (unused)

For storms that form in the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility, encompassing the area between 140 degrees west and the International Date Line, all names are used in a series of four rotating lists. The next four names that were slated for use in 2006 are shown below, however only the name Ioke was used.

Ioke

Kika (unused)

Lana (unused)

Maka (unused)

Retirement

The name Ioke was retired from the north-central Pacific list by the World Meteorological Organization in the spring of 2007 and replaced with Iopa.^[7] During the 61st Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference, the Hawaii State Civil Defense requested the retirement of the name Daniel, citing that the storm had become memorable due to threat of damage.^[8] However, the request was denied, as the name remains on the tropical cyclone naming list.^[6]

Season effects

This is a table of all the storms that formed in the 2006 Pacific hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s), denoted in parentheses, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all the damage figures are in 2006 USD.

Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale
TD	TS	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5

2006 Pacific hurricane season statistics
Storm name	Dates active	Storm category at peak intensity	Max 1-min wind mph (km/h)	Min. press. (mbar)	Areas affected	Damage (USD)	Deaths
Aletta	May 27 – 30	Tropical storm	45 (75)	1002	None	Minimal	None
Two-E	June 3 – 5	Tropical depression	35 (55)	1005	Southwestern Mexico, Western Mexico	None	None
Bud	July 11 – 16	Category 3 hurricane	125 (205)	953	Hawaii	None	None
Carlotta	July 12 – 16	Category 1 hurricane	85 (140)	981	None	None	None
Daniel	July 16 – 26	Category 4 hurricane	150 (240)	933	Hawaii	None	None
Emilia	July 21 – 28	Tropical storm	65 (100)	990	Southwestern Mexico, Western Mexico, Baja California Peninsula, Southwestern United States	Minimal	None
Fabio	July 31 – August 3	Tropical storm	50 (85)	1000	None	None	None
Gilma	August 1 – 3	Tropical storm	40 (65)	1004	None	None	None
Hector	August 15 – 23	Category 2 hurricane	110 (175)	966	None	None	None
Ioke	August 20 – 27,^{[nb 1]}	Category 5 hurricane	160 (260)	915	Johnston Atoll, Wake Island, Minamitorishima, Southern Alaska	$88 million	None
Ileana	August 21 – 27	Category 3 hurricane	125 (205)	951	Socorro Island	Minimal	1
John	August 28 – September 4	Category 4 hurricane	130 (215)	948	Guerrero, Michoacán, Baja California Sur, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas	$60.9 million	5
Kristy	August 30 – September 8	Category 1 hurricane	80 (130)	985	None	None	None
Lane	September 13 – 17	Category 3 hurricane	125 (205)	952	Southwestern Mexico, Western Mexico, Northwestern Mexico, Southwestern United States	$203 million	4
Miriam	September 16 – 18	Tropical storm	45 (75)	999	None	None	None
Two-C	September 19 – 20	Tropical depression	35 (55)	1007	None	None	None
Three-C	September 26 – 27	Tropical depression	35 (55)	1008	None	None	None
Norman	October 9 – 15	Tropical storm	50 (85)	1000	Southwestern Mexico,^{[nb 2]} Western Mexico	None	None
Olivia	October 9 – 12	Tropical storm	45 (75)	1000	None	None	None
Four-C	October 13 – 14	Tropical depression	35 (55)	1007	None	None	None
Paul	October 21 – 26	Category 2 hurricane	105 (165)	970	Oaxaca, Guerrero, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa	$3.2 million	4
Eighteen-E	October 26 – 27	Tropical depression	35 (55)	1007	None	None	None
Rosa	November 8 – 10	Tropical storm	40 (65)	1002	None	None	None
Twenty-E	November 11	Tropical depression	35 (55)	1007	None	None	None
Sergio	November 13 – 20	Category 2 hurricane	110 (175)	965	Guerrero	None	None
Season Aggregates
25 systems	May 27 – November 20		160 (260)	915		$355 million	14

Related pages

2006 Atlantic hurricane season

Notes

↑ Though Hurricane Ioke did not make landfall, its strike on Wake Island is included in the table, due to the severe damage on the island.
↑ In its report on Tropical Storm Norman, the National Hurricane Center did not specify whether the storm moved ashore or not. However, in its report to the World Meteorological Organization, officials from Mexico included Norman in the storms that moved ashore along the country.