List of Pacific Hurricanes - Crossover Storms From Eastern Pacific To Atlantic

Crossover Storms From Eastern Pacific To Atlantic

See also: List of Atlantic–Pacific crossover hurricanes

This includes only systems which stayed a tropical cyclone during the passage or that maintained a circulation during the crossover.

Season Storm (Pacific) Storm (Atlantic)
1842 Unnamed Unnamed
1902 Unnamed tropical depression Unnamed
1923 Unnamed Unnamed
1949 Unnamed Unnamed
1961 Simone Inga (see below)
1965 Unnamed tropical depression Unnamed
1989 Cosme Allison

In addition to those, there are apparently two additional ones. One existed before 1856 and made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Another Pacific tropical cyclone crossed over central Mexico and also made it to the Gulf sometime after September 9, 1924.

With reanalysis, doubt has arisen over whether Tropical Storm Simone, the renamed Hurricane Hattie, recrossed the North American continent and actually became Tropical Storm Inga.

It used to be that when a Pacific named storm crossed North America and made it to the Atlantic (or vice versa), it would receive the next name on the respective basin's list. This policy has since been changed to a tropical cyclone keeping its name if it remains a tropical cyclone during the entire passage. Only if it dissipates and then re-forms does it get renamed.

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