 The 1994 Pacific hurricane season was the final season of the eastern north Pacific 's most recent active string of hurricane seasons that unofficially started in 1981 . The season officially started on May 15 , 1994 in the eastern Pacific , and on June 1 , 1994 in the central Pacific , and lasted until November 30 , 1994 . These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean . The first tropical cyclone formed on June 18 , while the last system dissipated on October 26 . This season , twenty @-@ two tropical cyclones formed in the north Pacific Ocean east of the dateline , with all but two becoming tropical storms or hurricanes . A total of 10 hurricanes occurred , including five major hurricanes . 
