Information on Hurricane Adrian
(May 17-20, 2005) Category 1 Hurricane
Hurricane Adrian made landfall on the El
Salvador coast late on the evening of May 19. The eye of the storm moved over land about
midnight and the storm weakened to a tropical storm shortly there after.
more than 14, 000 were evacuated and business and schools were closed.
Wind gusts were to 81MPH were reported at Comalapa International Airport 15 miles
SSE of San Salvador around 11PM CDT.
The country's National Service for Territorial Studies
reported the hurricane hit land near the port of Acajutla, about 35 miles
(55 kilometers) west of the capital, San Salvador. U.S. forecasters placed
Adrian closer to Puerto La Libertad, the beach resort and seafood center
closest to El Salvador's capital, San Salvador.
Adrian was diminished to a Tropical
Depression by the morning of May 20. The remnants of the storm brought
heavy rain across the mountain regions of El Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras. The storm did not regenerate when reaching the warm waters of
the Caribbean.
Click to enlarge previous storm tracks in the region
On May 20, storm warnings in Guatemala and El Salvador had been lifted. Although,
the president of El Salvador cautioned his people that "the emergency is
not over yet" and residents should remain on alert for flooding and
mudslides. No casualties have been directly attributed to the storm at
this time.
Adrian is the earliest landfall tropical
cyclone on record - in either Atlantic or Pacific regions and the first
hurricane on record to hit El Salvador. Many tropical disturbances are
born in the waters near El Salvador, but almost always
proceed NW along the coast. Baja's own Hurricane Juliette in 2001 was one
of these. Only
two other tropical storms have hit El Salvador, in 1996 and before that in
1911.
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Historical Info on Hurricane Adrian 2005
Maximum Status Achieved: Hurricane 1
Duration : May 17- May 20, 2005
Max Wind Speed: 75kts
Min. Barometric Pressure: 982mb
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At 10:30 PM on 5/17/05 Adrian became the first
named storm of the 2005, just two days into the Eastern Pacific Hurricane
Season. At that time, Adrian was located about 440 miles SW of Guatemala
and El Salvador. The waters in which Adrian was spawned are the warmest in
the Eastern Pacific at this time and are in excess of 30³C
At 12:17PM MDT on 05/19/05 the National
Hurricane Center in Miami announced that that storm had achieved hurricane
strength, according to Air Force recon aircraft.
At 8AM MDT 05/20/05 Adrian was over land and
downgraded to a Tropical Depression.
Since 1966 only four tropical systems have made landfall in Guatemala or
El Salvador in any month. Only one tropical depression has ever made
landfall there in the month of May. No NW Hemisphere tropical cyclone has
ever made landfall this early in May, anywhere.
Adrian is not forecast to pose any threat to
the Baja peninsula. Adrian is expected to emerge on the Caribbean side
Friday as a Tropical Depression and move swiftly NE. The Caribbean waters
into which Adrian will emerge are above the 28°C isotherm, but shear and
surface conditions are not favorable for redevelopment.
Adrian will only maintain the Pacific Hurricane name if it emerges into
the Caribbean as a cyclone. Only a handful of storms have existed in both
Atlantic and Pacific hurricane basins.
See Satellite Imagery Below.
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