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 140degW, and began on June 1 2006 in the central Pacific, which is between the International Date Line and 140degW. 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.
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.
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.
Hurricane Daniel
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.
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.
Hurricane Illena
Illena killed one person in Mexico. It peaked as a Cateogory 3 storm.
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.
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 Storm Miriam
Tropical Depression Two-C
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 Depression Eighteen-E
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.
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 Ioke was retired from the north-central Pacific list by the World Meteorological Organization in the spring of 2007 and replaced with Iopa. 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. 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
Notes
References
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
2006 Pacific hurricane season