Hurricane Gordon (2006)

Hurricane Gordon reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 10, 2006 and September 24, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 955 mb, and made landfall. It did $3.8 million of damage.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Gordon, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2006 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 10, 2006 to September 24, 2006
Peak strength: Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure: 955 mb (28.20 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 22.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 600 nmi (1111 km, 690 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached: 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size: 240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 130 kt (150 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 48 kt (55 mph)
Identifier: AL082006

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

0 deaths$3.8 million

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Sep 10, 18:00	20.2N 53.8W	25 kt	1012 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 11, 00:00	20.3N 54.5W	30 kt	1011 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 11, 06:00	20.6N 55.3W	30 kt	1010 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 11, 12:00	20.9N 56.3W	35 kt	1008 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 11, 18:00	21.4N 57.1W	40 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 00:00	21.8N 57.6W	50 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 06:00	22.3N 58.0W	50 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 12:00	22.8N 58.2W	50 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 18:00	23.4N 58.2W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 13, 00:00	24.0N 58.1W	65 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Sep 13, 06:00	24.7N 58.0W	70 kt	984 mb	Hurricane
Sep 13, 12:00	25.6N 57.9W	80 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Sep 13, 18:00	26.5N 57.7W	95 kt	965 mb	Hurricane
Sep 14, 00:00	27.3N 57.4W	105 kt	955 mb	Hurricane
Sep 14, 06:00	28.2N 56.8W	105 kt	956 mb	Hurricane
Sep 14, 12:00	29.1N 56.2W	105 kt	956 mb	Hurricane
Sep 14, 18:00	29.8N 55.4W	105 kt	958 mb	Hurricane
Sep 15, 00:00	30.3N 54.6W	100 kt	960 mb	Hurricane
Sep 15, 06:00	30.8N 53.8W	95 kt	965 mb	Hurricane
Sep 15, 12:00	31.1N 53.5W	85 kt	973 mb	Hurricane
Sep 15, 18:00	31.1N 53.5W	80 kt	976 mb	Hurricane
Sep 16, 00:00	31.1N 53.5W	75 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Sep 16, 06:00	31.2N 53.6W	70 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
Sep 16, 12:00	31.3N 53.8W	65 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Sep 16, 18:00	31.5N 53.9W	65 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Sep 17, 00:00	31.9N 53.8W	65 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Sep 17, 06:00	32.4N 53.7W	65 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Sep 17, 12:00	33.3N 53.3W	70 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
Sep 17, 18:00	34.1N 52.9W	70 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
Sep 18, 00:00	35.0N 52.1W	75 kt	981 mb	Hurricane
Sep 18, 06:00	36.1N 50.6W	75 kt	979 mb	Hurricane
Sep 18, 12:00	36.9N 48.7W	80 kt	976 mb	Hurricane
Sep 18, 18:00	37.5N 46.3W	85 kt	972 mb	Hurricane
Sep 19, 00:00	38.0N 43.3W	85 kt	972 mb	Hurricane
Sep 19, 06:00	38.1N 40.2W	90 kt	970 mb	Hurricane
Sep 19, 12:00	38.0N 37.0W	80 kt	977 mb	Hurricane
Sep 19, 18:00	37.8N 33.5W	75 kt	979 mb	Hurricane
Sep 20, 00:00	37.7N 29.9W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Sep 20, 06:00	37.6N 26.1W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Sep 20, 12:00	37.8N 22.6W	65 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
Sep 20, 18:00	38.5N 18.5W	65 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
Sep 21, 00:00	40.1N 14.0W	60 kt	984 mb	Extratropical
Sep 21, 06:00	43.8N 10.4W	55 kt	986 mb	Extratropical
Sep 21, 12:00	48.5N 9.0W	55 kt	982 mb	Extratropical
Sep 21, 18:00	52.5N 9.5W	55 kt	978 mb	Extratropical
Sep 22, 00:00	54.5N 10.5W	60 kt	975 mb	Extratropical
Sep 22, 06:00	57.0N 14.0W	65 kt	974 mb	Extratropical
Sep 22, 12:00	56.5N 18.5W	55 kt	976 mb	Extratropical
Sep 22, 18:00	56.0N 19.5W	45 kt	980 mb	Extratropical
Sep 23, 00:00	54.5N 20.0W	45 kt	982 mb	Extratropical
Sep 23, 06:00	52.5N 20.0W	40 kt	986 mb	Extratropical
Sep 23, 12:00	50.7N 17.7W	35 kt	993 mb	Extratropical
Sep 23, 18:00	49.0N 14.5W	35 kt	994 mb	Extratropical
Sep 24, 00:00	48.0N 10.0W	30 kt	995 mb	Extratropical
Sep 24, 06:00	48.5N 8.5W	30 kt	996 mb	Extratropical
Sep 24, 12:00	49.0N 8.0W	30 kt	998 mb	Extratropical
Sep 24, 18:00	50.5N 7.5W	25 kt	1001 mb	Extratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 2006

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.