hurricane hurricane late season hurricane pacific hurricane season struck southwestern mexico october forming tropical wave left africa september slowly developed tropical depression soon strengthened tropical storm rapidly intensified hurricane october continuing intensify hurricane attained major hurricane strength peaked category hurricane coast mexico shortly landfall weakened category hurricane dissipated october damage generally minimal person reported missing meteorological history originated tropical wave moved coast africa september beginning westward course atlantic caribbean development increase convection near lesser antilles september disorganized suppressed upper level trough wave passage caribbean_sea wave crossed panama september convection began increase reached initially disorganized system later better organized october wave organized tropical depression shortly upgraded tropical storm named tropical storm system expect near coast mexico forecasters noted potential landfall system little better organized warm water low wind shear steadily intensified upgraded hurricane day eye formed hour later period strengthening turned north continued strengthening occurred attained major hurricane status september time system anticipated landfall mexico category hurricane storm maximum winds mph shortly storm began weaken utc october eye started defined based storm downgraded category hurricane eye longer visible satellite imagery storms displayed deep convection nhc initially maintained intensity mph eye continued defined downgraded category intensity time landfall october rapidly weakened land dissipating tropical depression time moved offshore prior arrival hurricane watches warnings issued afternoon october hurricane watch issued areas west day watch upgraded hurricane warning hours later area east tropical storm warning issued watches gradually dropped days october nhc warned possibility mudslides landslides rain high terrain mexico sparsely populated area struck minor damage reported heavy rain flooding reported peaking inches location person reported missing state people injured guerrero homes damaged guerrero acres farmland flood washed away homes guerrero prompted evacuation people passenger train north encountered washed storm caused power outages
Hurricane Virgil (1992)