The strongest hurricane ever recorded in human history hit land on Friday, October 23, 2015. Hurricane Patricia made her appearance on the Pacific coast of Mexico at 6:15 PM CDT.

What made this storm so powerful? As one reporter stated, “There has never been a hurricane anywhere on the planet in all of history that has reached wind speeds of 325 kilometers per hour.” With its overabundance of winds came the threat of torrential rain and flooding. When the storm was first tracked, it was shown to be heading straight for the center of Mexico, an area that doesn’t receive much rain. Prayers flooded in from all around the world for those that were in the path of the hurricane, and continued even after the tragedy occurred for those that were affected.

The storm also registered as an 8.3 on the Dvorak Intensity Scale, a scale that technically only measures to 8. The intensity and potential damage that was to come with this storm quickly earned it the title of a Category 5 hurricane and caused flooding as far north as Texas, but about 24 hours after it hit land, it was downgraded to a remnant low.

Once it was realized how dangerous this storm was going to be, Mexico declared a state of emergency. The Mexican government was urging citizens and tourists alike to evacuate from all areas that were going to be affected. However, this was difficult as all flights were cancelled shortly after the storm was located. This left thousands of people stranded. Luckily for the government and people of Mexico, the storm struck a stretch of relatively remote and uninhabited land and quickly died out before hitting the heavily populated areas.

After all the talk of how intense and damaging this storm was projected to be, there is one strangely unique fact about Hurricane Patricia: the death toll of the strongest storm ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere came to a total of zero.