The 2000 season

Hurricane Keith (2000)

Hurricane Keith reached Category 4 in the North Atlantic between September 28, 2000 and October 6, 2000, with a lowest pressure of 939 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Keith. 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
September 28, 2000 to October 6, 2000
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure
939 mb (27.73 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.2
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
AL152000

Deaths and damage

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

Landfalls

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 2, 23:00San Pedro, Belize District, Belize, 4 km away17.9N 88.0W65 kt (75 mph)988 mb
Oct 3, 03:00San Pedro, Belize District, Belize, 25 km away17.9N 88.2W60 kt (69 mph)990 mb
Oct 5, 18:00Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 23 km away22.6N 97.9W80 kt (92 mph)980 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
Sep 28, 18:0016.1N 82.9W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 00:0016.2N 83.3W25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 06:0016.6N 83.6W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 12:0016.9N 84.0W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 18:0017.4N 84.8W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0017.7N 85.4W45 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0017.9N 86.0W55 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0017.9N 86.4W65 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 30, 18:0017.9N 86.7W75 kt977 mbHurricane
Oct 1, 00:0017.9N 86.9W100 kt955 mbHurricane
Oct 1, 06:0017.9N 87.2W120 kt941 mbHurricane
Oct 1, 12:0017.9N 87.4W115 kt944 mbHurricane
Oct 1, 18:0017.9N 87.7W110 kt950 mbHurricane
Oct 2, 00:0017.8N 87.9W100 kt959 mbHurricane
Oct 2, 06:0017.6N 87.8W80 kt974 mbHurricane
Oct 2, 12:0017.7N 87.8W70 kt980 mbHurricane
Oct 2, 18:0017.7N 87.9W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 2, 23:00 landfall17.9N 88.0W65 kt988 mbHurricane
Oct 3, 00:0017.9N 88.0W60 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 03:00 landfall17.9N 88.2W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0018.0N 88.4W45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 12:0018.3N 88.8W30 kt995 mbTropical depression
Oct 3, 18:0018.6N 89.5W30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Oct 4, 00:0019.0N 90.4W25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 4, 06:0019.5N 91.4W30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 4, 12:0019.9N 92.5W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0020.3N 93.5W40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 00:0020.7N 94.8W60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 06:0021.2N 96.1W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 5, 12:0021.8N 97.0W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Oct 5, 18:00 landfall22.6N 97.9W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Oct 6, 00:0023.2N 99.0W45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0023.5N 100.0W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 6, 12:0023.8N 101.0W20 kt1007 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 2000

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.