Tropical Depression Six-E was 735 miles south of the southern tip of Baja California at 1500 UTC Sunday, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and west-northwest movement at 14 mph, according to National Hurricane Center advisory 3, while no coastal watches or warnings were in effect and NHC listed no hazards affecting land. [1]

The paper's Saturday forecast record kept EP97 below depression, named-storm and landfall claims, and advisory 3 closes only the first gap because forecasters had observed enough organization to classify Six-E as a depression.

The next stage remained forecast, as NHC expected steady to rapid strengthening while its discussion said the inner core was not well defined and noted that water cooled by Tropical Storm Elida was one negative factor, and NHC Pacific's authorized status likewise said the depression was likely to strengthen significantly without establishing a stronger classification or coastal threat. [1] [2]

This edition stops at its fixed 2026-07-19 20:24 UTC cutoff and therefore uses only the identity Six-E while excluding any later name, intensity or advisory: a depression was observed over open water, strengthening was forecast, and coastal hazards had not developed in the cutoff-safe record; archived advisories preserve what forecasters knew and said at a particular hour, so later knowledge cannot revise that timestamp into a prediction corrected afterward, and those stages remain separate even when a storm changes soon afterward.

-- DARA OSEI, London