Tropical Storm Matthew (2010)
Tropical Storm Matthew peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between September 23, 2010 and September 26, 2010, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb, and made landfall. It killed 126 people, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Matthew, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2010 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- September 23, 2010 to September 26, 2010
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 998 mb (29.47 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 1.5
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
- Overall size
- 250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 19 kt (22 mph)
- Identifier
- AL152010
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
126 deathsno damage figure
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
Landfalls
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 19:00 | Puerto Cabezas, North Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua, 75 km away | 14.7N 83.3W | 50 kt (58 mph) | 998 mb |
| Sep 25, 15:00 | Lívingston, Izabal Department, Guatemala, 84 km away | 16.5N 88.4W | 35 kt (40 mph) | 1000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 12:00 | 13.7N 74.8W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 23, 18:00 | 13.9N 76.2W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 24, 00:00 | 14.0N 77.7W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 24, 06:00 | 14.0N 79.3W | 45 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 24, 12:00 | 14.2N 81.1W | 45 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 24, 18:00 | 14.6N 83.0W | 50 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 24, 19:00 landfall | 14.7N 83.3W | 50 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 25, 00:00 | 15.2N 84.6W | 50 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 25, 06:00 | 15.8N 86.1W | 45 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 25, 12:00 | 16.3N 87.7W | 35 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 25, 15:00 landfall | 16.5N 88.4W | 35 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 25, 18:00 | 16.7N 89.4W | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 26, 00:00 | 17.0N 90.8W | 30 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 26, 06:00 | 17.3N 91.9W | 25 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 26, 12:00 | 17.5N 92.8W | 20 kt | 1002 mb | Low |
| Sep 26, 18:00 | 17.2N 93.3W | 20 kt | 1003 mb | Low |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2010
- Hurricane AlexNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Tropical Storm BonnieNorth Atlantic · 2010 · 1 death
- Tropical Storm ColinNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane DanielleNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane EarlNorth Atlantic · 2010 · 8 deaths
- Tropical Storm FionaNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Tropical Storm GastonNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane IgorNorth Atlantic · 2010 · 4 deaths
- Hurricane JuliaNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane KarlNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane LisaNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Tropical Storm NicoleNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane OttoNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane PaulaNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane RichardNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane SharyNorth Atlantic · 2010
- Hurricane TomasNorth Atlantic · 2010
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.