High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hurricane Emilia was the fifth tropical cyclone, second Pacific hurricane, and the first major hurricane of the 1994 Pacific hurricane season. It was the third most intense tropical cyclone in the central Pacific Ocean, attaining a minimum central pressure of 926 mbar (27.34 inHg) on July 19—only Gilma and Ioke reached lower pressures in the basin. It organized to a tropical depression on July 16, quickly attaining tropical storm intensity. It moved west-northwest under a ridge, strengthening to a hurricane on July 17. Subsequently, Emilia underwent rapid deepening, increasing to a powerful Category 5 hurricane on July 19. In response to an upper-level trough, Emilia turned northwest on July 21 and encountered wind shear. The cyclone turned westward and rapidly weakened, dissipating late on July 24.