Storm history › East Pacific › 1979 season
Hurricane Fefa (1979)
Fefa was a Category 3 hurricane of the 1979 East Pacific season. It was tracked from August 21, 1979 to August 25, 1979, about 4 days, and covered 1,468 miles.
At its peak it had winds of 115 mph (185 km/h).
- Peak wind
- 115 mph
- Lowest pressure
- Not recorded
- Strongest
- Category 3 hurricane
- Landfalls
- None recorded
- Duration
- 4 days
- Track length
- 1,468 mi
- Energy (ACE)
- 7.3
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How it compares
- Peak winds: 241st highest of 1,371 East Pacific storms on record, tied with Hurricane Priscilla (2025), Hurricane Eugene (2017), Hurricane Otis (2017) and 35 more.
- Energy: 13% of the 1979 East Pacific season's ACE.