The 2010 season

Hurricane Shary (2010)

Hurricane Shary reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between October 28, 2010 and October 30, 2010, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Shary, 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.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
October 28, 2010 to October 30, 2010
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 923 km (574 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
80 kt (92 mph)
Fastest the center moved
38 kt (44 mph)
Identifier
AL202010

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 28, 18:0025.6N 61.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 29, 00:0026.8N 63.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0028.1N 64.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0029.3N 65.9W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0030.2N 65.8W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0031.3N 64.0W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Oct 30, 06:0032.9N 60.9W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Oct 30, 12:0035.1N 57.2W65 kt991 mbHurricane
Oct 30, 18:0037.0N 53.5W55 kt993 mbExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 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.