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1955 Pacific hurricane season

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Field	Value
Basin	EPac
Year	1955
Track	1955 Pacific hurricane season summary map.png
First storm formed	June 6, 1955
Last storm dissipated	October 16, 1955
Strongest storm name	One
Strongest storm winds	75
Total storms	6
Total hurricanes	2
Total intense	0
Average wind speed	1
Fatalities	0
five seasons	[1953](1953-pacific-hurricane-season), [1954](1954-pacific-hurricane-season), 1955, [1956](1956-pacific-hurricane-season), [1957](1957-pacific-hurricane-season)
Atlantic season	1955 Atlantic hurricane season
West Pacific season	1955 Pacific typhoon season
North Indian season	1950s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons

The 1955 Pacific hurricane seasons began on May 15, 1955, in the northeast Pacific Ocean and on June 1, 1955, in the central Pacific. They ended on November 30, 1955. These dates conventionally delimit the time of year when most tropical cyclones form in northeast Pacific Ocean.

Before the satellite age started in the 1960s, data on east Pacific hurricanes is extremely unreliable. Most east Pacific storms are of no threat to land. Six tropical systems were observed this season.

Seasonal summary

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Systems

Hurricane One

| 1-min winds = 75 Hurricane One existed from June 6 to June 8.

Tropical Storm Two

| 1-min winds = 45 Tropical Storm Two existed from June 8 to June 11.

Tropical Storm Three

| 1-min winds = 45 Tropical Storm Three existed from July 6 to July 9.

Tropical Storm Four

| 1-min winds = 45 Tropical Storm Four developed on September 1 and moved away from Mexico while weakening. This stormed dissipated on September 5.

Tropical Storm Five

| 1-min winds = 45

In early October, the remnants of Hurricane Janet entered the Pacific Ocean, which later re-organized into the fifth tropical storm of the Pacific hurricane season. On October 1, the storm began to curve northwestward due to a ridge over Texas. Over the following days, however, a shortwave over the United States West Coast forced to the storm to the north and then east. The tropical storm maintained the same intensity throughout its existence, before making landfall on Baja California Sur at 0600 UTC on October 3. The disturbance crossed back into the Gulf of California, where it dissipated the following day. The remnants of the cyclone later moved into Sonora. In the United States, rainfall was spread throughout areas of Arizona and New Mexico. Stations in Tatum and Lovington, New Mexico, recorded peak rainfall totals in excess of 3 in.

Hurricane Six

| 1-min winds = 75

In mid-October, a hurricane hit southwestern Mexico.

The hurricane killed 40 people in Atenquique, Jalisco, due to flooding. The storm produced floods across southwestern Mexico after heavy rainfall, affecting Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacán.

References

United States Department of Commerce. (1955). "Bulletins and Advisories Issued by Weather Bureau Airport Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Weather Bureau Office, Miami, Florida, and Weather Bureau Office, New Orleans, Louisiana, on Hurricane "Janet"". United States Weather Bureau.
(August 1986). "The Effects of Tropical Cyclones on the Southwestern United States". National Weather Service Western Region.
(October 18, 1955). "40 People Reported Drowned". Las Vegas Daily Optic.

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