The 2001 season

Hurricane Humberto (2001)

Hurricane Humberto reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between September 21, 2001 and September 27, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Humberto, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2001 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
September 21, 2001 to September 27, 2001
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 471 km (293 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
28 kt (32 mph)
Identifier
AL102001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 21, 12:0025.1N 64.2W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 18:0025.8N 65.0W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 22, 00:0026.5N 65.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 22, 06:0027.2N 65.9W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 22, 12:0027.9N 66.3W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0028.6N 66.7W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0029.3N 67.0W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0030.1N 67.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0031.0N 67.5W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 18:0031.9N 67.4W80 kt986 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 00:0032.8N 67.1W85 kt983 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 06:0033.8N 66.8W75 kt989 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 12:0035.0N 66.3W70 kt990 mbHurricane
Sep 24, 18:0035.9N 65.4W70 kt991 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 00:0036.8N 64.3W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 06:0037.7N 63.4W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 12:0038.5N 62.4W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 18:0039.2N 61.6W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 00:0039.6N 60.7W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 06:0040.4N 60.3W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 12:0041.0N 59.2W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 18:0041.8N 57.5W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 00:0042.2N 54.6W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 06:0042.4N 51.3W65 kt991 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 12:0042.2N 47.5W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0041.5N 44.5W45 kt996 mbTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 2001

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.