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2013 EASTERN PACIFIC BASN HURRICANE

SEASON

Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna,

Virginia, USA 

STORM TRACKS AS OF JULY 8, 2013

STORM TRACKS AS OF SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

STORM TRACKS AS OF OCTOBER 20, 2013

HURRICANE BARBARA: MAY 29

The most notable storms so far this year were HURRICANE

BARBARA and Tropical Storm, Manuel; both brought

widespread heavy rains to Mexico

TROPICAL STORM MANUEL:

MEXICO: HIT BY INGRID AND MANUEL

TROPICAL STORM MANUEL STRIKES ACAPULCO

80 DEAD

TROPICAL STORM MANUEL: ACAPULCO; SEPT 18, 2013

HURRICANE INGRID

Torrential rains spawned by Ingrid and Manuel, which

converged on Mexico from the Gulf and the Pacific over

the weekend, triggering flash floods and landslides

MANUEL: LANDSLIDES

18 of the 80 deaths were people killed after a

landslide buried their homes in the village of La

Pintada

TROPICAL STORM MANUEL: MUDFLOWS; SEPT 18, 2013

LOOTING IN ALCAPULCO

• Shops were plundered in the city's upscale neighborhood of Diamante, home to luxury hotels and plush apartments.

IMPACTS

• Tens of thousands of people were trapped in the aftermath of two tropical storms (Manuel and Ingrid) that hammered vast swaths of Mexico.

• More than 1 million people were affected.

• With Acapulco's airport terminal under water, thousands of tourists stranded.

With a tropical disturbance over the Yucatan Peninsula headed

toward the same Gulf coast hit by Hurricane Ingrid, the country was

experiencing a double hit, at a time that it was struggling to

restore services and evacuate those stranded by the flooding of

the previous weekend

BUT, THE WORST NEWS OF ALL IS THAT MANUEL

STRENGTHENED INTO A TROPICAL STORM AGAIN ON THE

PACIFIC COAST AND COULD CAUSE MORE DAMAGE IN

NORTHERN MEXICO

MANUEL’S TRACK

MANUEL: BECOMES A HURRICANE; SEPT. 19

HEAVY RAINFALL

TOTAL DEATHS FROM MANUEL REACH 97

EVACUATION OF TOURISTS

TROPICAL STORM RAYMOND: OCT. 20, 2013

RAYMOND, A RAINMAKER, TO IMPACT ALCAPULCO

• Raymond, which strengthened to a CAT 1 hurricane on Sunday (Oct. 20th) is expected to impact the Acapulco area.

• Acapulco is still recovering from flooding and mudslides triggered by Manuel. 

A HISTORICAL NOTE ON the 1989 RAYMOND

• Hurricane Raymond, a CAT 4 storm, was the strongest tropical storm of the 1.89 Pacific Hurricane season.

• Raymond made its first landfall on the Baja California Peninsula as a tropical storm on October 4 and a second landfall in Sonora, Mexico.

• Tucson, Arizona was flooded on Oct. 7.