Possible New Record Established By Hurricane Adrián

[HURAKAN]

As the National Hurricane Center said the first day TD 1-E developed, only 4 tropical cyclones have hit El Salvador/Guatemala since 1966. Searching in Unisys, I have found only two of those encounters. One was in 1982 when Hurricane Paul which at the moment of landfall in Guatemala was still a tropical depression, and Tropical Storm Andrés which in 1997 also hit the country as a tropical depression. The other 2 tropical systems that I wasn't able to find I hypothesize were tropical depressions that never made it to tropical storm status and thereafter do not appear in the Unisys database. Moreover, Adrián is the first hurricane to hit El Salvador from the Pacific side since viable records have been kept of the Eastern Pacific Ocean right after the launch of satellites to space.

HURRICANE PAUL, 1982


TROPICAL STORM ANDRES, 1997


HURRICANE ADRIAN, 2005