Hurricanes

The 2001 season

102 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Radar

Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

Open the live radar with storms, cones and warnings

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

Deaths and damage

5 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 78 people in all, and 3 as having done damage, $9.4 billion of it.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

17 storms, 15 at tropical storm strength, 9 hurricanes, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 105.6.

Eastern Pacific

19 storms, 16 at tropical storm strength, 8 hurricanes, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 90.6.

Western Pacific

35 storms, 29 at tropical storm strength, 20 typhoons, 11 major; accumulated cyclone energy 307.8.

North Indian

6 storms, 4 at tropical storm strength, 1 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 15.4.

South Indian

13 storms, 13 at tropical storm strength, 7 at hurricane force, 3 major; accumulated cyclone energy 87.3.

South Pacific

12 storms, 11 at tropical storm strength, 4 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 47.8.

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.