2006 Pacific hurricane season

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.

### 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.

### 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.

### Major Hurricane Bud

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

### Hurricane Carlota

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

### Major Hurricane Daniel

Not to be confused with Storm Daniel or Hurricane Danielle

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

It caused some rain in Mexico, causing minor damage.

### Tropical Storm Fabio

Fabio caused heavy rainfall in Hawaii.

### Tropical Storm Gilma

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

### Hurricane Hector

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

### Major Hurricane Ioke

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.

### Major Hurricane Illena

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

### Major Hurricane John

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.

### Hurricane Kristy

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

### Major Hurricane Lane

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 Depression Three-C

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.

### Tropical Storm Norman

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

### Tropical Storm Olivia

Olivia did not affect land.

### Tropical Depression Four-C

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

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

### Tropical Storm Rosa

Rosa produced light rain to Mexico in November.

### Tropical Depression Twenty-E

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

### Hurricane Sergio

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

**<big>Other Systems</big>**

### Tropical Storm 91C

On October 28, 2006, a cut-off extratropical cyclone stalled over the northeast Pacific Ocean and began to strengthen. By October 31, the storm had acquired tropical characteristics, including an eye, convection, and a warmer-than-average core.The system reached peak intensity on November 1, before slowly weakening and looping towards the Pacific Northwest. The system made landfall in Washington state on November 3, before rapidly weakening and dissipating on the next day. During the duration of the storm, the system was known as Storm 91C. The storm's true nature still remains controversial among meteorologists today, due to disputes over the storm's exact structure and whether or not it had obtained tropical or subtropical characteristics. Because the storm was not within the area of responsibility of the National Hurricane Center or the Central Pacific Hurricane Center, it was never assigned a name.

## Storm names

The following names were used for named storms that formed in the northeast Pacific in 2006. 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.

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.

### Retirement

The name _Ipot_ was retired from the north-central Pacific list by the PAGASA in the spring of 2007 and replaced with _Indang_. During the 61st Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference, the Philippines State Civil Defense requested the retirement of the name _Dumudura_, citing that the storm had become memorable due to threat of damage. However, the request was denied, as the name remains on the tropical cyclone naming list.

## 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.

## Related pages

- 2006 Atlantic hurricane season

## Other websites

- National Hurricane Center's Eastern Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook - updated four times daily
- National Hurricane Center
- National Hurricane Center's 2006 Advisory Archive
- Central Pacific Hurricane Center

## Infobox (hurricane season)

- **track**: 2006 Pacific hurricane season summary map.png
- **basin**: EPac
- **year**: 2006
- **first storm formed**: May 27, 2006
- **last storm dissipated**: November 20, 2006
- **strongest storm name**: _Ioke_
- **strongest storm pressure**: 915
- **strongest storm winds**: 140
- **total storms**: 18 – East
1 – Central
- **total intense**: 5 – East
1 – Central
- **fatalities**: 15
- **damages**: 170.8
- **five seasons**: 2004 Pacific hurricane season, 2004 2005 Pacific hurricane season, 2005 **2006** 2007 Pacific hurricane season, 2007 2008


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Tropical Storm Aletta (2006).jpg
- **track**: Aletta 2006 track.png
- **formed**: May 27
- **dissipated**: May 30
- **1-min winds**: 40
- **pressure**: 1002


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Tropical Depression Two-E (2006).PNG
- **track**: Two-E 2006 track.png
- **formed**: June 3
- **dissipated**: June 5
- **1-min winds**: 30
- **pressure**: 1005


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: hurricane bud 2006.jpg
- **track**: Bud 2006 track.png
- **formed**: July 11
- **dissipated**: July 16
- **1-min winds**: 110
- **pressure**: 953


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: hurricane carlotta 2006.jpg
- **track**: Carlotta 2006 track.png
- **formed**: July 12
- **dissipated**: July 16
- **1-min winds**: 75
- **pressure**: 981


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Hurricane daniel 2006.jpg
- **track**: Daniel 2006 track.png
- **formed**: July 16
- **dissipated**: July 26
- **1-min winds**: 130
- **pressure**: 933


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: TS Emilia 2006.jpg
- **track**: Emilia 2006 track.png
- **formed**: July 21
- **dissipated**: July 28
- **1-min winds**: 55
- **pressure**: 990


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Tropical Storm Fabio 2006.jpg
- **track**: Fabio 2006 track.png
- **formed**: July 31
- **dissipated**: August 3
- **1-min winds**: 45
- **pressure**: 1000


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: TS Gilma 2006BW.jpg
- **track**: Gilma 2006 track.png
- **formed**: August 1
- **dissipated**: August 3
- **1-min winds**: 35
- **pressure**: 1004


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Hurricane hector 2006.jpg
- **track**: Hector 2006 track.png
- **formed**: August 15
- **dissipated**: August 23
- **1-min winds**: 95
- **pressure**: 966


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Ioke 2006-08-24 2155Z.jpg
- **track**: Ioke 2006 track.png
- **formed**: August 20
- **dissipated**: August 27
- **1-min winds**: 140
- **pressure**: 915


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Hurricane Ileana 23 aug 2006 1750Z.jpg
- **track**: Ileana 2006 track.png
- **formed**: August 21
- **dissipated**: August 27
- **1-min winds**: 105
- **pressure**: 955


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Hurricane John Aug 31 2006.jpg
- **track**: John 2006 track.png
- **formed**: August 28
- **dissipated**: September 4
- **1-min winds**: 116
- **pressure**: 948


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: 12E Hurricane Kristy 2006.jpg
- **track**: Kristy 2006 track.png
- **formed**: August 30
- **dissipated**: September 8
- **1-min winds**: 70
- **pressure**: 985


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Hurricane Lane 16 sept 2006 aqua.jpg
- **track**: Lane 2006 track.png
- **formed**: September 13
- **dissipated**: September 17
- **1-min winds**: 110
- **pressure**: 952


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Miriam06.jpg
- **track**: Miriam 2006 track.png
- **formed**: September 16
- **dissipated**: September 18
- **1-min winds**: 40
- **pressure**: 999


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: 02C TERRA MODIS 30 kt 2006.jpg
- **track**: 2-C 2006 track.png
- **formed**: September 18
- **dissipated**: September 20
- **1-min winds**: 30
- **pressure**: 1007


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: TD 03C 2006 NRL.jpg
- **track**: 3-C 2006 track.png
- **formed**: September 26
- **dissipated**: September 27
- **1-min winds**: 30
- **pressure**: 1007


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: TS Norman 09 oct 2006 1849Z.jpg
- **track**: Norman 2006 track.png
- **formed**: October 9
- **dissipated**: October 15
- **1-min winds**: 45
- **pressure**: 1000


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: TS Olivia 09 oct 2006 2155Z.jpg
- **track**: Olivia 2006 track.png
- **formed**: October 9
- **dissipated**: October 12
- **1-min winds**: 40
- **pressure**: 1000


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: TD 4C 13 oct 2006 2143Z.jpg
- **track**: 4-C 2006 track.png
- **formed**: October 13
- **dissipated**: October 14
- **1-min winds**: 30
- **pressure**: 1007


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Hurricane Paul 23 oct 2006 2030Z.jpg
- **track**: Paul 2006 track.png
- **formed**: October 21
- **dissipated**: October 26
- **1-min winds**: 90
- **pressure**: 970


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: TD 18E 26 oct 2006 1755Z.jpg
- **track**: 18-E 2006 track.png
- **formed**: October 26
- **dissipated**: October 27
- **1-min winds**: 30
- **pressure**: 1007


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: TS Rosa 09 nov 2006 1800Z.jpg
- **track**: Rosa 2006 track.png
- **formed**: November 8
- **dissipated**: November 10
- **1-min winds**: 35
- **pressure**: 1002


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: TD 20E 11 nov 2006 1755Z.jpg
- **track**: 20-E 2006 track.png
- **formed**: November 11
- **dissipated**: November 11
- **1-min winds**: 30
- **pressure**: 1007


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Hurricane Sergio 15 nov 2006 1725Z.jpg
- **track**: Sergio 2006 track.png
- **formed**: November 13
- **dissipated**: November 20
- **1-min winds**: 95
- **pressure**: 965


## Infobox (hurricane small)

- **basin**: EPac
- **image**: Storm 91C 01 nov 2006 2030Z.jpg
- **track**: 91C 2006 track.png
- **formed**: October 28
- **dissipated**: November 4
- **1-min winds**: 55
- **pressure**: 989