Hurricane Huko (also known as Typhoon Huko, international designation: 0224, JTWC designation: 03C), the Hawaiian equivalent of the name Hugo, was a Central Pacific tropical cyclone that had effects in all three north Pacific basins (east, central, and west). It formed on October 24, making it the third tropical cyclone to form in central Pacific that season. The depression reached tropical storm strength on October 26 and became a minimal hurric...
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Hurricane Huko (also known as Typhoon Huko, international designation: 0224, JTWC designation: 03C), the Hawaiian equivalent of the name Hugo, was a Central Pacific tropical cyclone that had effects in all three north Pacific basins (east, central, and west). It formed on October 24, making it the third tropical cyclone to form in central Pacific that season. The depression reached tropical storm strength on October 26 and became a minimal hurricane on October 28, but it soon weakened. Eventually, Huko was able to regain Category 1 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and maintained it past the International Date Line, becoming the second storm this season to cross the line. In the west Pacific, the redesignated Typhoon Huko continued to hold Category 1 intensity until November 6, when it began weakening, ultimately recurving back into the central Pacific basin as an extratropical cyclone.
The hurricane caused high waves to hit Hawaii and caused heavy rains and wind gusts of...
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