The 1995 season

Hurricane Roxanne (1995)

Hurricane Roxanne reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between October 7, 1995 and October 21, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 956 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Roxanne, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1995 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
October 7, 1995 to October 21, 1995
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
956 mb (28.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
16.2
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
AL191995

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 11, 02:00Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 28 km away20.0N 87.6W100 kt (115 mph)958 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.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 7, 18:0014.0N 82.1W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 00:0014.2N 82.7W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 06:0014.8N 83.0W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 12:0015.0N 83.2W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 18:0015.7N 83.2W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 00:0016.5N 83.1W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0017.2N 83.0W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0017.9N 82.9W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0018.4N 82.9W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0018.9N 83.7W60 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0019.2N 84.3W70 kt985 mbHurricane
Oct 10, 12:0019.4N 85.0W80 kt972 mbHurricane
Oct 10, 18:0019.9N 86.0W95 kt966 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 00:0020.0N 87.0W100 kt958 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 02:00 landfall20.0N 87.6W100 kt958 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 06:0020.0N 88.1W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 12:0019.9N 89.1W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 18:0019.7N 90.0W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 12, 00:0019.5N 90.8W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Oct 12, 06:0019.5N 91.5W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Oct 12, 12:0019.5N 92.2W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0019.7N 92.6W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0020.1N 92.8W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0020.5N 93.1W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0021.0N 93.6W55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0021.4N 93.9W55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0021.8N 93.9W55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0022.2N 93.9W60 kt981 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0022.3N 93.8W65 kt980 mbHurricane
Oct 14, 18:0022.3N 93.3W70 kt980 mbHurricane
Oct 15, 00:0021.8N 92.9W70 kt979 mbHurricane
Oct 15, 06:0021.4N 92.4W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Oct 15, 12:0021.0N 91.9W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Oct 15, 18:0020.6N 91.6W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Oct 16, 00:0020.4N 91.5W75 kt981 mbHurricane
Oct 16, 06:0020.3N 91.7W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Oct 16, 12:0020.3N 92.0W65 kt985 mbHurricane
Oct 16, 18:0020.4N 92.2W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 17, 00:0020.6N 92.4W65 kt991 mbHurricane
Oct 17, 06:0020.9N 92.6W60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0021.2N 92.9W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0021.3N 93.1W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 00:0021.5N 93.3W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 06:0021.8N 93.6W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 12:0022.2N 94.2W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 18:0022.3N 94.7W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 00:0022.3N 95.1W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 19, 06:0022.4N 95.4W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 19, 12:0022.3N 95.5W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 19, 18:0022.3N 95.6W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 20, 00:0022.4N 95.6W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 20, 06:0022.0N 95.5W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 20, 12:0021.5N 95.5W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 20, 18:0020.5N 95.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 00:0019.5N 96.0W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1995

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.