The 1858 San Diego Hurricane was a very rare California hurricane. It is the only known tropical cyclone to impact California as a hurricane, although other systems impacted California as tropical storms. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying most Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the levels of tropical depression and tropical storm and thereby become hurricanes; the categories it divides hurricanes into are distinguished by the intensities of their respective sustained winds. ... October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ... A millibar (mbar, also mb) is 1/1000th of a bar, a unit for measurement of pressure. ... For the urban complex straddling the United States-Mexico border, see Bajalta California. ... The following is a list of pre-1900 Pacific hurricane seasons. ... Cyclone Catarina, a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone viewed from the International Space Station on March 26, 2004 Hurricane and Typhoon redirect here. ...

Storm history

Sometime in September, a hurricane formed in the East Pacific Ocean. Unlike most east Pacific storms, this one moved towards the north. On October 2, it neared Southern California while weakening and being sheared. It just missed making landfall, as it turned to the northwest. It approached Santa Catalina Island in the Channel Islands and dissipated. There is some uncertainty to this reconstructed path.^[1] This article is about weather phenomena. ... October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... For the urban complex straddling the United States-Mexico border, see Bajalta California. ... Avalon Bay is a beautiful bay on Catalina Island. ... The Channel Islands of California, also called the Santa Barbara Islands, are a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California along the Santa Barbara Channel in the United States of America. ...

Impact

In San Diego, the rain was very heavy, and the property damage was great, many homes lost their roofs, while a few homes even collapsed. In addition, trees were uprooted, and fences destroyed. A recently constructed windmill was also blown away completely. Three schooners, the Plutus, the Lovely Flora, and the X.L. were blown ashore, though only the X.L. suffered major damage.^[1] Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin...

Rainfall in San Pedro was also heavy, but high winds were not reported. Parts of the embankment in the city were washed away, causing only around $100 (1858 USD) in damage. The yacht, Medora, was washed ashore. Many reports claimed that the yacht was unrepairable, but it was later claimed that the damage wasn't actually that great and could be repaired. A barge was destroyed, as was a large portion of the San Pedro wharf.^[1] San Pedro is a community within Los Angeles, California, annexed in 1909 and a major seaport of the area. ...

Monte was buffeted by high winds, damage corn crops and trees. Los Angeles and Visila noted large amounts of rain, as much as 7 inches, but low winds.^[1] Monte (Italian, Spanish and Portuguese meaning mount) may refer to various things: Monte is the name of several places: // In Brazil Barão de Monte Alto, Minas Gerais Belo Monte, Alagoas *Buriti dos Montes, Piauí Campina do Monte Alegre, São Paulo Monte Alegre, Pará Monte Alegre, Rio Grande do... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial unit of length. ...

In an estimate by Dr. Michael Chenoweth and Dr. Christopher Landsea, if the storm would hit today, it would cause around $500 million dollars in damage.^[2] Christopher Landsea is a research meteorologist with Hurricane Research Division of Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory at NOAA. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. ...

Rediscovery

Using newspaper accounts, two researchers with NOAA, Christopher Landsea and Michael Chenoweth, reconstructed this hurricane. Its strong winds were mentioned in the folklore of the region. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a scientific agency of the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere. ...

See also

Tropical cyclones Portal

• List of notable Pacific hurricanes
• List of California tropical storms

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Reference

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} The San Diego Hurricane of 2 October 1858
2. ^ http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/presentations/ams-sandiego.ppt#14