Hurricane Opal (1995)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 27, 1995 to October 6, 1995

Peak strength

Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)

Lowest pressure

916 mb (27.05 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

11.1

Fastest the center moved

36 kt (41 mph)

Identifier

AL171995

Radar at KEVX as it neared land, Oct 4, 22:00 UTC

The sources count different things and are not added together.

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

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 2,449 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 19.42 inches (493 mm).

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

• Hurricane AllisonNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 165 kt · 982 mb
• Tropical Storm BarryNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Storm60 kt · 989 mb
• Tropical Storm ChantalNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Storm60 kt · 991 mb
• Tropical Storm DeanNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Storm40 kt · 999 mb
• Hurricane ErinNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 285 kt · 973 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Depression30 kt · 1002 mb
• Hurricane FelixNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 4120 kt · 929 mb
• Tropical Storm GabrielleNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Storm60 kt · 988 mb
• Hurricane HumbertoNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 295 kt · 968 mb
• Hurricane IrisNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 295 kt · 957 mb
• Tropical Storm JerryNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Storm35 kt · 1002 mb
• Tropical Storm KarenNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane LuisNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 4130 kt · 935 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Depression30 kt · 1008 mb
• Hurricane MarilynNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 3100 kt · 949 mb
• Hurricane NoelNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 165 kt · 987 mb
• Tropical Storm PabloNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Storm50 kt · 994 mb
• Hurricane RoxanneNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 3100 kt · 956 mb
• Tropical Storm SebastienNorth Atlantic · 1995Tropical Storm55 kt · 1001 mb
• Hurricane TanyaNorth Atlantic · 1995Cat 175 kt · 970 mb

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Opal