During the evening hours of October 3, an area of showers and thunderstorms had moved off the Colombian coastline.
 Moving slowly towards the west, the area of disturbed weather began gaining more convection, and late the following day, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring the disturbance/.  Over the course of the next day, the area of low pressure became better defined, and the convection associated with the low became more consolidated.
Thus, the National Hurricane Center upgraded their chances of the low becoming a tropical cyclone to 50%.
 Under favorable conditions, the area of disturbed weather continued to quickly become organized, and late on October 5, the NHC began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Ten-E, located 625 mi (1005 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico.
 Embedded within a favorable environment for further strengthening, the depression slowly organized, and was upgraded to a tropical storm at 2100 UTC on October 6, while moving towards the northwest, in response to a weakening Subtropical Ridge.

Moderate wind shear affected Jova throughout the day on October 7, when the low-level circulation was mainly located just to the north of the area of deep convection.
 However, the wind shear decreased early on October 8, and subsequently, Jova was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale during the afternoon hours of October 8 as it drifted towards the east-northeast.
 Late on October 9, the storm was upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane with a distinct eye feature evident.
Early on the following morning, Jova began a round of rapid intensification and became a major hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour (190 km/h).
Moving towards the east, Jova reached its peak as a strong Category 3, with sustained winds of 125 mph (201 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 955 mbar (28.2 inHg), just below Category 4 intensity.
Jova made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane, with sustained winds of 100 mph (160 km/h) and a pressure of 975 mbar (28.8 inHg), on La Huerta, Jalisco on October 12, and rapidly weakened over Mexico.
Shortly after landfall, Jova rapidly dissipated to a remnant low, early on October 13.
During the evening hours of October 3, an area of showers and thunderstorms had moved off the Colombian coastline.  Moving slowly towards the west, the area of disturbed weather began gaining more convection, and late the following day, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring the disturbance/.  Over the course of the next day, the area of low pressure became better defined, and the convection associated with the low became more consolidated. Thus, the National Hurricane Center upgraded their chances of the low becoming a tropical cyclone to 50%.  Under favorable conditions, the area of disturbed weather continued to quickly become organized, and late on October 5, the NHC began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Ten-E, located 625 mi (1005 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico.  Embedded within a favorable environment for further strengthening, the depression slowly organized, and was upgraded to a tropical storm at 2100 UTC on October 6, while moving towards the northwest, in response to a weakening Subtropical Ridge.
Moderate wind shear affected Jova throughout the day on October 7, when the low-level circulation was mainly located just to the north of the area of deep convection.  However, the wind shear decreased early on October 8, and subsequently, Jova was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale during the afternoon hours of October 8 as it drifted towards the east-northeast.  Late on October 9, the storm was upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane with a distinct eye feature evident. Early on the following morning, Jova began a round of rapid intensification and became a major hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour (190 km/h). Moving towards the east, Jova reached its peak as a strong Category 3, with sustained winds of 125 mph (201 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 955 mbar (28.2 inHg), just below Category 4 intensity. Jova made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane, with sustained winds of 100 mph (160 km/h) and a pressure of 975 mbar (28.8 inHg), on La Huerta, Jalisco on October 12, and rapidly weakened over Mexico. Shortly after landfall, Jova rapidly dissipated to a remnant low, early on October 13.
Hurricane Jova (2011)