page_title: List of off-season Pacific hurricanes
hierarchical_section_title: List of off-season Pacific hurricanes
caption_attribution_description: English: Hurricane Ekeka on February 2, 1992
context_page_description: There have been 25 recorded tropical and subtropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific basin outside the official Pacific hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center monitors the area from North America westward to 140°W, while the Central Pacific Hurricane Center is from 140°W to the International date line, north of the equator. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration currently defines the season as starting May 15 in the eastern Pacific and June 1 for the central Pacific and ending on November 30 for both regions in each calendar year. Occasionally, however, storms develop in late November and persist until December, such as Hurricane Nina of 1957.
  Few off-season tropical cyclones in the east Pacific have affected land, and none of them have made landfall. Only Hurricane Nina caused both property damage and fatalities. The strongest hurricane between December and May was Hurricane Ekeka in 1992, which reached winds of 115 mph. However, after Tropical Storm Paka crossed the International Date Line, it intensified into a typhoon with winds equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.
context_section_description: There have been 25 recorded tropical and subtropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific basin outside the official Pacific hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) monitors the area from North America westward to 140°W, while the Central Pacific Hurricane Center is from 140°W to the International date line, north of the equator. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) currently defines the season as starting May 15 in the eastern Pacific and June 1 for the central Pacific and ending on November 30 for both regions in each calendar year. Occasionally, however, storms develop in late November and persist until December, such as Hurricane Nina of 1957.
  Few off-season tropical cyclones in the east Pacific have affected land, and none of them have made landfall. Only Hurricane Nina caused both property damage and fatalities. The strongest hurricane between December and May was Hurricane Ekeka in 1992, which reached winds of 115 mph (185 km/h). However, after Tropical Storm Paka crossed the International Date Line, it intensified into a typhoon with winds equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. The most recent off-season storm is Tropical Depression One-E in late-April 2020.
  The beginning of HURDAT, the official Pacific hurricane database maintained by the NHC, is 1949. Since then, thirteen storms have occurred outside the official bounds of hurricane season in the eastern and central north Pacific, respectively. In addition, the CPHC reports nine off-season storms from 1900–1952 with another off-season tropical cyclone occurring in 1832. There have been documents published in the Monthly Weather Review reporting additional off-season storms within 2,000 mi (3,220 km) off the Mexican coastline, including one in December.
caption: Hurricane Ekeka, the most intense off-season tropical cyclone in the eastern Pacific basin
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