2006 Pacific hurricane season

Infobox hurricane season
Track=2006 Pacific hurricane season map.png Basin=EPac
Year=2006
First storm formed=May 27, 2006
Last storm dissipated=November 20, 2006
Strongest storm name="Ioke"
Strongest storm pressure=915
Strongest storm winds=140| Average wind speed=1
Total storms=18 — East 1 — Central
Total intense=5 — East 1 — Central
Fatalities=15
Da

Inflated=-1
five seasons=2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

The table on the right shows the ACE for each storm in the season. ACE is, broadly speaking, a measure of the power of the hurricane multiplied by the length of time it existed, so storms that last a long time, as well as particularly strong hurricanes, have high ACEs. ACE is only calculated for full advisories on tropical systems at or exceeding 34 knots (39 mph, 63 km/h), or tropical storm strength.

The figures in parenthesis are for storms in the Central Pacific basin west of 140°W; those not in parenthesis are for the Eastern Pacific basin.

The cumulative ACE for the Eastern Pacific this season fell within the official "Near Normal" grading, even though the number of tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes was above the long term average.

torm 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. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray. There were no names retired from the northeast Pacific list. Therefore, the same list will be reused in the 2012 season.

Storms that formed in the central Pacific are given names from a sequential list; in 2006, the name "Ioke" was used from this list, the first time a name from the Central Pacific list had been used since the 2002 season.

Retirement

The name "Ioke" was retired from the north-central Pacific list by the WMO in the spring of 2007 and replaced with Iopa.

ee also

*List of Pacific hurricanes
*List of Pacific hurricane seasons
*2006 Atlantic hurricane season
*2006 Pacific typhoon season
*2006 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
*South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons: 2005–06, 2006–07
*Australian region cyclone seasons: 2005–06, 2006–07
*South Pacific cyclone seasons: 2005–06, 2006–07

References

External links

* [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIATWOEP.shtml National Hurricane Center's Eastern Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook] - updated four times daily
* [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ National Hurricane Center]
* [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2006/ National Hurricane Center's 2006 Advisory Archive]
* [http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/cphc/ Central Pacific Hurricane Center]