The first storm to form in the Central Pacific in the 2006 Pacific hurricane season , Ioke is a long-lived and extremely powerful storm that traversed the Pacific , reaching Category 5 status twice as a hurricane . The first storm to form in the Central Pacific in the 2006 Pacific hurricane season , Ioke was a record breaking , long-lived and extremely powerful storm that traversed the Pacific for 19 days , reaching the equivalent of Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times .