Tropical Storm Alberto (2012)
Tropical Storm Alberto peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between May 19, 2012 and May 23, 2012, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb.
Radar
Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Alberto. 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
- May 19, 2012 to May 23, 2012
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 995 mb (29.38 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 122 km (76 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 1.9
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 100 nmi (185 km, 115 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
- AL012012
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded
What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 1 states and marine areas, in the United States only. Property and crop damage as each office estimated it, which is not a national loss total.
In the United States
NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.
- Deaths
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 hail.
What forecast offices wrote
From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.
The Broadcast Media and the public reported that dime to quarter sized hail fell from Langford Parkway, south of Downtown Atlanta, to Lakewood Heights.
Fulton, Georgia · Hail · May 20, 23:20 UTC
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 00:00 | 33.1N 77.0W | 25 kt | 1010 mb | Low |
| May 19, 06:00 | 32.8N 77.1W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 19, 12:00 | 32.5N 77.3W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 19, 18:00 | 32.3N 77.6W | 45 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 20, 00:00 | 32.1N 78.1W | 50 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 20, 06:00 | 31.9N 78.7W | 45 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 20, 12:00 | 31.5N 79.5W | 40 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 20, 18:00 | 31.1N 79.9W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 21, 00:00 | 30.7N 80.1W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 21, 06:00 | 30.4N 79.8W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 21, 12:00 | 30.4N 79.1W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 21, 18:00 | 30.5N 78.3W | 35 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 22, 00:00 | 30.7N 77.1W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 22, 06:00 | 31.5N 76.1W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 22, 12:00 | 32.5N 74.7W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| May 22, 18:00 | 33.4N 73.4W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| May 23, 00:00 | 34.1N 71.9W | 25 kt | 1010 mb | Low |
| May 23, 06:00 | 34.9N 70.1W | 25 kt | 1011 mb | Low |
| May 23, 12:00 | 35.5N 67.9W | 25 kt | 1012 mb | Low |
| May 23, 18:00 | 35.9N 66.0W | 25 kt | 1012 mb | Low |
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- Tropical Storm JoyceNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane LeslieNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane KirkNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane MichaelNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane NadineNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Tropical Storm OscarNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Tropical Storm PattyNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane RafaelNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane SandyNorth Atlantic · 2012 · 254 deaths · $69 billion
- Tropical Storm TonyNorth Atlantic · 2012
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.