Hurricane Lorena (2019)

Hurricane Lorena, also refered to as Typhoon Lorena, is the second most intense Pacific hurricane on record, as well as becoming the most intense hurricane in the central Pacfic. The fourteenth named storm of the extremely active 2019 Pacific hurricane season, Lorena was a powerful, long lived, and record breaking storm that reached category 5-equivalent status three times and traversed all three Pacific basins over the course of 25 days.

Lorena began as a weak tropical storm in the lower area of the Pacific basin. It went through a very slow period of intensification, then on August 19, Lorena went through an explosive intensification, its winds nearly doubled in nearly a day and its intensity dropped to 894 mbar. Favorable conditions let Lorena sustain this powerful intensity. Immediately after entering the Central Pacific on August 21, the storm set a record for the most intense Central Pacific hurricane. A few days later, satellite imagery indicated that Lorena was going through an eyewall replacement cycle, causing it to briefly drop to category 4 status, before regaining category 5 status. As it crossed through the International Date Line on August 26 it weakened once again to category 4 status before reintensifying to category 5-equivalent status once again. As a typhoon, Lorena weakened very slowly, until it dissipated on September 4.

Despite Lorena's extreme intensity, the name was not retired, as it caused little to no damage as a tropical cyclone. Even its precursor near