Hurricane Karen (2001)
Hurricane Karen reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between October 11, 2001 and October 15, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 982 mb, and made landfall.
Radar
Reflectivity now over Hurricane Karen. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.
Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- October 11, 2001 to October 15, 2001
- Peak strength
- Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 982 mb (29.00 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 3.3
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
- Overall size
- 225 nmi (417 km, 259 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 47 kt (54 mph)
- Identifier
- AL132001
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.
Landfall
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 12:00 | Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada, 108 km away | 44.2N 64.8W | 40 kt (46 mph) | 998 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) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 06:00 | 27.5N 63.0W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 11, 12:00 | 29.8N 62.5W | 35 kt | 1003 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 11, 18:00 | 30.8N 63.5W | 45 kt | 998 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 12, 00:00 | 31.8N 64.7W | 60 kt | 991 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 12, 06:00 | 32.2N 65.8W | 60 kt | 988 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 12, 12:00 | 32.8N 65.8W | 60 kt | 988 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 12, 18:00 | 33.5N 66.3W | 60 kt | 988 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 13, 00:00 | 34.2N 66.1W | 60 kt | 988 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 13, 06:00 | 34.9N 65.3W | 60 kt | 988 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 13, 12:00 | 36.2N 64.8W | 60 kt | 986 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 13, 18:00 | 37.3N 64.6W | 65 kt | 985 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 14, 00:00 | 37.9N 64.0W | 65 kt | 985 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 14, 06:00 | 38.6N 63.7W | 70 kt | 982 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 14, 12:00 | 39.3N 63.9W | 60 kt | 988 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 18:00 | 40.1N 64.1W | 55 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 15, 00:00 | 40.9N 64.4W | 50 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 15, 06:00 | 42.3N 65.0W | 45 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 15, 12:00 landfall | 44.2N 64.8W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 15, 18:00 | 48.0N 62.0W | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Extratropical |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2001
- Tropical Storm AllisonNorth Atlantic · 2001 · 52 deaths · $9.0 billion
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Tropical Storm BarryNorth Atlantic · 2001 · 9 deaths · $30 million
- Tropical Storm ChantalNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Tropical Storm DeanNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Hurricane ErinNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Hurricane FelixNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Hurricane GabrielleNorth Atlantic · 2001 · 3 deaths
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Hurricane HumbertoNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Hurricane IrisNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Tropical Storm JerryNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Tropical Storm LorenzoNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Hurricane MichelleNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Hurricane NoelNorth Atlantic · 2001
- Hurricane OlgaNorth Atlantic · 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.