1979 Pacific hurricane season

Infobox hurricane season
Basin=EPac
Year=1979
Track=1979 Pacific hurricane season map.png First storm formed=May 31, 1979
Last storm dissipated=November 18, 1979
Strongest storm name=Ignacio
Strongest storm pressure=938
Strongest storm winds=125
Average wind speed=1
Total depressions=13
Total storms=10
Total hurricanes=6
Total intense=4
Fatalities=
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Inflated=
five seasons=1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981The 1979 Pacific hurricane season officially started May 15, 1979 in the eastern Pacific, and June 1, 1979 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1979. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeast Pacific Ocean.

With ten storms, less than two-thirds of the average of seventeen, this season was very inactive. There were six hurricanes, also below average. Of those hurricanes, four were major by reaching Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. As of the start of the 2006 season, the most recent with no tropical cyclones in the central Pacific.

torms

Tropical Depression One

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Formed=May 29
Dissipated=May 31
1-min winds=30A tropical disturbance formed on May 29 south of Manzanillo, Mexico and moved slowly southwestward. On May 31, the storm was upgraded to tropical depression status based on satellite data. Shortly after becoming a depression, the storm turned northward over cooler waters where it rapidly weakened and dissapated 370 miles southwest of Manzanillo. The only effects from a tropical depression was from a ship which reported heavy rainfall.cite web|author=Emil B. Gunther|year=1980|title=Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones of 1979|publisher=American Meteorliogical Society|accessdate=2007-05-01|url=http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0493/108/5/pdf/i1520-0493-108-5-631.pdf]

Hurricane Andres

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=May 31
Dissipated=June 4
1-min winds=85
Prepressure=≤
Pressure=992In early June, Hurricane Andres approached the Mexican coast and disintegrated rapidly as it approached. It made landfall as a weak depression on June 4.

Tropical Storm Blanca

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=June 21
Dissipated=June 25
1-min winds=45Blanca was a short lived storm that didn't affect land.

Tropical Storm Carlos

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=July 14
Dissipated=July 16
1-min winds=45Carlos was a storm that didn't affect land.

Tropical Depression Five

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Formed=July 16
Dissipated=July 16
1-min winds=30This depression existed on July 16.

Hurricane Dolores

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=July 17
Dissipated=July 23
1-min winds=105Dolores was a major hurricane that didn't affect land.

Hurricane Enrique

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=August 17
Dissipated=August 24
1-min winds=125Enrique was tied for the strongest storm of this season with Hurricane Ignicio, but didn't affect land.

Hurricane Fefa

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=August 21
Dissipated=August 25
1-min winds=100Fefa was a short-lived major hurricane which didn't affect land.

Tropical Depression Nine

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Formed=September 4
Dissipated=September 4
1-min winds=30This depression existed on September 4.

Hurricane Guillermo

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=September 8
Dissipated=September 13
1-min winds=65
Pressure=994Guillermo was a short-lived hurricane which didn't affect land.

Tropical Storm Hilda

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=October 4
Dissipated=October 6
1-min winds=40
Pressure=994Hilda was a short'lived storm which didn't affect land.

Hurricane Ignacio

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=October 23
Dissipated=October 30
1-min winds=125
Pressure=938Hurricane Ignacio was the strongest storm of the season, reaching Category 4 status. It then made a hairpin turn and approached the Mexican coast. It weakened to a tropical storm and made landfall on October 30.

Tropical Storm Jimena

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac

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Formed=November 15
Dissipated=November 18
1-min winds=55Jimena was a short-lived storm which did'nt affect land. It's only notable feature is that it developed further south than any other east Pacific tropical cyclone on record.

1979 storm names

The following names were used for named storms that formed in the eastern Pacific in 1979. This was the first time these names were used. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray.

The central Pacific used names and numbers from the west Pacific's typhoon list. No names were used.

ee also

*List of Pacific hurricanes
*List of Pacific hurricane seasons
*1979 Atlantic hurricane season
*1979 Pacific typhoon season
*1979 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
*Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons: 1978–79, 1979–80

References

External links

* [http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/e_pacific/1979/index.html Unisys Weather archive for the Eastern Pacific, 1979]
* [http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/pages/hurrclimate.php#1979 Central Pacific Hurricane Center archive]