Hurricane Danielle (2010)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 21, 2010 to September 3, 2010

Peak strength

Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)

Lowest pressure

942 mb (27.82 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 639 km (397 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

21.1

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

360 nmi (667 km, 414 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)

Overall size

400 nmi (741 km, 460 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

140 kt (161 mph)

Fastest the center moved

43 kt (49 mph)

Identifier

AL062010

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.

Deaths

1 (1 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

3

Property damage

none recorded

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

5 in 2 reports from 2 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

4 rip current, 1 high surf.

From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.

A man drowned off Seagull Park in Satellite Beach at 1350 LST August 28, while surfing within the high surf associated with distant Hurricane Danielle. Indications are that the surfer was hit on the head by his surf board as a result of successive 4 to 6 foot swells, and subsequently drowned. Life guards rescued nearly 100 people from the beaches of Brevard and Volusia Counties on August 28 alone. The high surf and dangerous rip currents persisted for several days.

Brevard, Florida · High Surf · Aug 28, 10:00 UTC

• Hurricane AlexNorth Atlantic · 2010Cat 295 kt · 946 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2010Tropical Depression30 kt · 1005 mb
• Tropical Storm BonnieNorth Atlantic · 2010 · 1 deathTropical Storm40 kt · 1005 mb
• Tropical Storm ColinNorth Atlantic · 2010Tropical Storm50 kt · 1005 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2010Tropical Depression30 kt · 1007 mb
• Hurricane EarlNorth Atlantic · 2010 · 8 deathsCat 4125 kt · 927 mb
• Tropical Storm FionaNorth Atlantic · 2010Tropical Storm55 kt · 998 mb
• Tropical Storm GastonNorth Atlantic · 2010Tropical Storm35 kt · 1005 mb
• Hurricane IgorNorth Atlantic · 2010 · 4 deathsCat 4135 kt · 924 mb
• Hurricane JuliaNorth Atlantic · 2010Cat 4120 kt · 948 mb
• Hurricane KarlNorth Atlantic · 2010Cat 3110 kt · 956 mb
• Hurricane LisaNorth Atlantic · 2010Cat 175 kt · 982 mb
• Tropical Storm MatthewNorth Atlantic · 2010 · 126 deathsTropical Storm50 kt · 998 mb
• Tropical Storm NicoleNorth Atlantic · 2010Tropical Storm40 kt · 994 mb
• Hurricane OttoNorth Atlantic · 2010Cat 175 kt · 976 mb
• Hurricane PaulaNorth Atlantic · 2010Cat 290 kt · 981 mb
• Hurricane RichardNorth Atlantic · 2010Cat 285 kt · 977 mb
• Hurricane SharyNorth Atlantic · 2010Cat 165 kt · 989 mb
• Hurricane TomasNorth Atlantic · 2010Cat 285 kt · 982 mb

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.

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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live
• Best track as KMZ, National Hurricane Center
• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Danielle