1938 Pacific hurricane season

1938 Pacific hurricane season
Seasonal boundaries
First system formedJanuary 11, 1938
Last system dissipatedOctober 22, 1938
Strongest storm
NameFive
 • Lowest pressure976 mbar (hPa; 28.82 inHg)
Seasonal statistics
Total storms18
Hurricanes1
Total fatalities5
Total damageUnknown
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Pacific hurricane seasons
1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940

The 1938 Pacific hurricane season ran through the summer and fall of 1938. Before the satellite age started in the 1960s, data on east Pacific hurricanes was extremely unreliable. Most east Pacific storms were of no threat to land. However, 1938 saw an unusually active season, with numerous tropical cyclones forming in January and a hurricane struck Northern California in February, killing five people. On August 18, Cyclone Mokapu caused record August rainfall, and a record low pressure when it struck Hawaiian Islands. It brought down power lines and damages into a plantation.