History of Hurricane Barbara (2013) in Timeline

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Hurricane Barbara (2013)

Hurricane Barbara, the first hurricane of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season and the easternmost landfalling Pacific hurricane on record, formed southeast of Mexico on May 28. It strengthened into a tropical storm on May 29, then rapidly intensified into a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall in Chiapas, Mexico, on May 29 with 80 mph winds and a 983 mbar pressure. Its landfall marked the second-earliest hurricane landfall in the basin since 1966. Barbara dissipated over the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountains on May 30 after crossing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

1950: Landfall in Tonalá, Chiapas

Around 1950 UTC, Hurricane Barbara, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph and a barometric pressure of 983 mbar, made landfall on the coast of Tonalá, Chiapas.

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1966: Second Earliest Landfalling Hurricane

In 1966, reliable records began to be kept, and Hurricane Barbara was the second earliest landfalling hurricane in the basin since then.

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