The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Beryl (1994)

Tropical Storm Beryl peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between August 14, 1994 and August 19, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Beryl. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
August 14, 1994 to August 19, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Fastest the center moved
22 kt (25 mph)
Identifier
AL031994

Radar at KEVX as it neared land, Aug 16, 00:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Aug 16, 00:00Tyndall Air Force Base, FL, 9 km away30.0N 85.6W50 kt (58 mph)1000 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Rainfall

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 2,094 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 17.45 inches (443 mm).

StationTotalPosition
JOCASSEE 8 WNW17.45 in (443 mm)34.98N 83.07W
LAKE TOXAWAY 2 SW13.78 in (350 mm)35.12N 82.97W
Tallula Falls13.59 in (345 mm)0.00N 0.00E
APALACHICOLA MUNI AP12.58 in (320 mm)29.73N 85.02W
WALHALLA11.16 in (283 mm)34.75N 83.08W
BLOWING ROCK 1 NW10.84 in (275 mm)36.15N 81.70W
Hendersonville10.47 in (266 mm)0.00N 0.00E
LAKE LURE 210.45 in (265 mm)35.42N 82.18W
ROSMAN10.39 in (264 mm)35.13N 82.82W
NINETY NINE ISLANDS10.24 in (260 mm)35.07N 81.50W
PERRY10.05 in (255 mm)30.10N 83.57W
TOCCOA10.05 in (255 mm)34.57N 83.33W

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 14, 12:0028.7N 87.2W20 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 18:0029.4N 87.3W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 00:0029.5N 86.3W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 06:0029.6N 85.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 12:0029.7N 85.6W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0029.9N 85.7W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:00 landfall30.0N 85.6W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0030.4N 85.3W50 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0031.3N 85.0W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 18:0032.3N 84.5W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 00:0033.3N 83.9W20 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 06:0034.3N 83.5W15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 12:0035.5N 82.6W15 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 18:0037.5N 81.5W15 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 00:0038.5N 79.6W15 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 06:0039.5N 77.5W15 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 12:0041.2N 76.0W15 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 18:0041.6N 73.9W15 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 19, 00:0042.0N 72.0W15 kt1012 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1994

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.