Hurricane Henriette (2007)

Hurricane Henriette

Category 1 hurricane (SSHWS/NWS)
Henriette near the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula
Formed	August 30, 2007
Dissipated	September 6, 2007
Highest winds	1-minute sustained: 85 mph (140 km/h)
Lowest pressure	972 mbar (hPa); 28.7 inHg
Fatalities	9 direct
Damage	$25 million (2007 USD)
Areas affected	Southwestern Mexico, Western Mexico, Northwestern Mexico
Part of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season

Hurricane Henriette was a minimal Category 1 hurricane that affected portions of Mexico in late August and early September 2007. The storm, which caused nine fatalities, formed from an area of disturbed weather on August 30, 2007, and became a tropical storm the next day. The cyclone moved parallel to the Mexican Pacific coast, but its proximity to the shore resulted in heavy rainfall over land. The most affected city was Acapulco, Guerrero, where six people were killed by landslides, and where over 100 families had to be evacuated after the La Sabana River flooded. Henriette then turned north and headed towards the Baja California peninsula, and became a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Henriette made its first landfall east of Cabo San Lucas at peak intensity, (Eye witness reports state the first landfall was directly over Cabo) causing the death of one woman due to high surf.

Hurricane Henriette then emerged over the Gulf of California, and made its second landfall near Guaymas, Sonora. After causing heavy rains in Sonora, the storm dissipated over the Sierra Madre Occidental and its remnants went on to cause flooding in New Mexico and Texas. Damage totaled about $275 million (2007 MXN, $25 million 2007 USD). It hit Mexico on the same day Hurricane Felix hit Nicaragua, only one of two occurrences in which a North Atlantic hurricane and a Pacific hurricane made landfall on the same day.