Fausto reached hurricane strength at 0300 UTC Tuesday, when the National Hurricane Center estimated maximum sustained winds of 75 mph over the eastern Pacific while reporting that no coastal watch or warning was in effect, with the center still offshore and local experience absent from the operational record at cutoff. [1]

The July 19 account fixed Six-E as a 35 mph depression over open water, before naming, while Monday's account stopped at a 70 mph tropical storm, with hurricane status and Baja surf still forecast rather than observed.

Advisory 10 raised the analyzed wind estimate to 80 mph at 0900 UTC, and advisories 11 and 12 returned it to 75 mph at 1500 and 2100 UTC, respectively, keeping the day's brief peak from becoming a permanent condition in this account. [2] [3] [4]

The Guardian paired Fausto's hurricane threshold with forecast dangerous western Baja surf, [5] while the final cutoff-safe advisory reported no waves arriving, Baja strike, rescue, injury or coastal damage, leaving hurricane classification as observed analysis and local effects as prospective. [4]

The specific July 21 X search for NHC_Pacific, Fausto and hurricane status found no verified post, so platform reaction remained unobserved, while the archived advisories preserve the cutoff-safe distinction that Fausto changed category offshore but coastal experience still awaited local observations rather than inference from a wind estimate or surf forecast.

-- LUCIA VEGA, São Paulo