Here is the latest information on Sandra:
- Location: About 155 miles west of Las Islas Marias, Mexico, or about 205 miles southwest of Mazatlan, Mexico.
- Movement: Steadily north. Sandra's circulation will pass well southeast of Cabo San Lucas late Friday night, then should move into Sinaloa, Durango or Chihuahua states Saturday.
- Intensity: Sandra is tropical storm, although a rapid weakening process continues since Sandra got caught up in the subtropical jet stream. Sandra should weaken to a minimal tropical storm or depression before making landfall in mainland Mexico early Saturday, as wind shear further displaces the low and mid level centers of the system.
- Tropical storm warning issued: For part of the Mexican Pacific coast, including Mazatlan. This means tropical storm-force winds (mainly in gusts) are expected through Saturday. The earlier tropical storm watch for the southern Baja California peninsula, including Los Cabos, has been dropped.
- Impacts: Despite this weakening trend, locally heavy rain and flash flooding are possible in the above-mentioned Mexican states where Sandra limps ashore. Some moisture from Sandra may also pump into a heavy rain event in the southern Plains of the U.S.
Rarities and Records
- Sandra became the latest Category 4 hurricane of record early Thursday morning in either the eastern Pacific or Atlantic basins.
- In other words, Sandra is the strongest hurricane so late in the season. Only three other eastern Pacific storms have formed later in the calendar than Sandra in records dating to 1949.
- Hurricane Sandra became the second latest forming hurricane on record, behind Hurricane Winnie in 1983.
- There is no record of an intact depression or named storm making a landfall on either Baja California or Mexico's Pacific coast so late in the season. According to hurricane specialist Michael Lowry, the latest eastern Pacific landfall on record was Tara on November 12, 1961. So, Sandra is likely to shatter this record by over two weeks.
- The previous latest major hurricane in either the central-eastern Pacific or Atlantic was an unnamed storm in 1934, that remained a major hurricane into Nov. 23.
- The previous latest Category 4+ tropical cyclone in either the eastern Pacific or Atlantic basins was Hurricane Kenneth on Nov. 22, 2011.
- Sandra is the 30th Category 3+ tropical cyclone of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, far exceeded the previous record of 23 such storms in 1997 and 2004.
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