Cyclone Pia(2019)

Cyclone Pia was the 10th Named Storm, 6th Cyclone and 2nd Intense Cyclone of the 2019 Lucarius Pacific Cyclone Season. It was also the first Category 6 or higher Cyclone on the Lucarius Cyclonic Classification Scale in the month of May since Cyclone Nine of 2009 and the strongest cyclone to strike the mexican state of Nayarit since Cyclone Ninteen of 2013, despite it being the 7th Cyclone to make landfall there in the past 4 years.

Pia originated from a Monsoonal Rain interacting with a Tropical Wave that entered the Lucarius Pacific on May 7. After a moderately slow organization period, the system was classified as Potential Tropical Depression L-Eleven-P on May 11 before the Lucarius National Marine Reconnaissance planes confirmed that a surface rotation had been present, leading to the classification of Tropical Depression L-Eleven-P later that day. General West-Northwestward movement would ensue for the following week with forward speeds failing to reach 13 mph in that timespan, gradually intensifying while it did so. The storm quickly slowed in forward speed, while beginning to rapidly intensify just South of Isla Soccoro. on the night of May 19, the storm would reach a peak intensity of 180 mph and a pressure of 902 mbar. A northwest turn followed by weakening would prompt a less strong but still devastating 160 mph landfall in Nayarit on May 22. Within 24 hours, the cyclone had weakened from a Category 6 to a Remnant Low. It was tracked in the Douglas Atlantic by the DHC for redevelopment, despite no such occurrence before it was absorbed by a front on May 24.

Overall, the losses are not certain but the current estimate is $1.9 billion in damages and 37 deaths. Severe beach erosion, flooding and property damage was observed in coastal Nayarit. Rainfall records for the month of May in Central Mexico were broken primarily due to Pia and what would later be known as Bob-Armaldo a week following. The death toll is currently considered low especially compared to other storm who have made impact on land at similar strengths which have totaled thousands of lost lives. This is thought to be the result of a massive evacuation ordered on May 21 of 750,000 residents. Currently 30% of residents in Tepic are without power and 60% of the city was reported to have been without power a week after the storm's passage. The storm's impact however, was limited due to the fact that it was already weakening upon landfall and it was moving a high forward speed.