page_title: 1939 Pacific hurricane season
section_title: Hurricane Ten
hierarchical_section_title: 1939 Pacific hurricane season / Systems / Hurricane Ten
caption_attribution_description: English: Surface analysis of an intense tropical cyclone making landfall on the western coast of Mexico on October 25, 1939.
context_page_description: The 1939 Pacific hurricane season ran through the summer and fall of 1939. Before the satellite age started in the 1960s, data on east Pacific hurricanes was extremely unreliable. Most east Pacific storms were of no threat to land. However, 1939 saw a large number of storms threaten California.
context_section_description: On October 23, a tropical cyclone formed south of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco. It intensified and headed roughly due north.  A steamer, the Nevadan, caught in the eye of this extremely intense hurricane, recording a corrected central pressure of 930 mbar (hPa; 27.46 inHg). Even with modern tropical cyclone observation techniques available, this reading still qualifies this cyclone as one of the most intense on record and would likely have made it a Category 4 or 5 hurricane. The steep pressure gradient between the Nevadan and the external hurricane conditions off of Manzanillo, Colima caused several tarpaulins to burst. Other shipping was disrupted off the Mexican coast by the intense tropical cyclone.
  The hurricane made landfall near Cabo Corrientes on October 25 and dissipated shortly thereafter. Onshore, the storm caused an extensive swath of damage. Homes were destroyed in the towns of Santiago Ixcuintla and Rosamorada in the Mexican state of Nayarit, displacing hundreds of people. In Puerto Vallarta, a strong storm surge flooded a section of the town, destroying several homes. Tobacco, corn, and rice crops in the region suffered considerable damage. The strong winds downed power lines, resulting in the delayed dissemination of damage reports. Although no exact casualty total was documented, reports indicated that the tropical cyclone caused a "few casualties". After the storm, US$6,000 was donated to help aid the displaced in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco, while doctors and nurses were sent to those areas.
caption: Surface analysis of Hurricane Ten making landfall on October 25
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