Before the satellite age started in the 1960s, data on east Pacific hurricanes was extremely unreliable.
It then recurved, and made landfall near Mazatlán late during the night of September 26 and 27, while still a hurricane.
It headed along the coast, and entered the Gulf of California sometime on or after September 28,[4] wherein it moved north-northwest and dissipated, with its remnants continuing into the Southwestern United States.
[4] Over a four-day period ending October 1, those remnants caused heavy rain of up to 7 inches (180 mm) in the mountains of Southern California.
[6] Those rains also caused flash flooding on Tehachapi and Agua Caliente Creeks, which killed fifteen people.