High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1962 Pacific hurricane season was a moderately active Pacific hurricane season that included two hurricane landfalls. The first, Hurricane Valerie, struck northwestern Mexico in June. The other, Hurricane Doreen, hit further to the north of Valerie in October. The most impacting storm of the season was Tropical Storm Claudia, after its remnants dropped heavy rainfall in portions of Arizona. The rainfall left damaging flooding across rivers and towns.