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Hurricane Nora near peak intensity

Hurricane Nora was the fourteenth named tropical cyclone and seventh hurricane of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season. The September storm formed off the Pacific coast of Mexico, and aided by waters warmed by El Niño, eventually peaked at Category 4 intensity on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.

Nora then took an unusual path and proceeded to make landfall twice as a hurricane in Baja California, with its remnants afterwards affecting the Southwestern United States with tropical storm-force winds, torrential rain and flooding. Nora is credited with two direct casualties in Mexico, and it was only the third tropical cyclone to reach Arizona while tropical.

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