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The 1998 Pacific hurricane season was a moderately active Pacific hurricane season with seven tropical cyclones directly affecting land. The most notable tropical cyclone during the year was Hurricane Isis, which killed 14 people in when it made landfall on southern Baja California and coastal Sinaloa in Mexico. Isis caused over $5 million in damage (1998 USD, $6.2 million 2006 USD) in the country which included over 300 destroyed homes, and later affected the southwestern United States by producing light rainfall and dozens of traffic accidents. Hurricane Lester and Tropical Storm Frank were also deadly.

The season officially started on May 15, 1998 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1998 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1998. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. The season saw 13 named storms form, slightly below average. 9 storms attained hurricane status, of which 6 became major hurricanes.

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