Tropical Storm Hanna (2014)

Tropical Storm Hanna peaked at 35 kt in the North Atlantic between October 21, 2014 and October 29, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Hanna, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2014 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 21, 2014 to October 29, 2014
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure: 1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 0.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size: 125 nmi (232 km, 144 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier: AL092014

Deaths and damage

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

Landfall

Time (UTC)	Where	Position	Wind	Pressure
Oct 27, 16:00	Puerto Cabezas, North Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua, 97 km away	14.9N 83.3W	35 kt (40 mph)	1005 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
Oct 21, 00:00	19.5N 95.3W	25 kt	1002 mb	Low
Oct 21, 06:00	19.5N 94.8W	25 kt	1002 mb	Low
Oct 21, 12:00	19.5N 94.2W	25 kt	1001 mb	Low
Oct 21, 18:00	19.5N 93.7W	30 kt	1000 mb	Low
Oct 22, 00:00	19.5N 93.3W	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 22, 06:00	19.5N 92.9W	30 kt	1001 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 22, 12:00	19.4N 92.4W	30 kt	1002 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 22, 18:00	19.3N 91.9W	30 kt	1003 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 23, 00:00	19.2N 91.3W	25 kt	1004 mb	Low
Oct 23, 06:00	18.9N 90.8W	20 kt	1005 mb	Low
Oct 23, 12:00	18.6N 90.5W	20 kt	1006 mb	Low
Oct 23, 18:00	18.2N 90.0W	20 kt	1007 mb	Low
Oct 24, 00:00	17.9N 89.4W	20 kt	1008 mb	Low
Oct 24, 06:00	18.1N 88.5W	20 kt	1008 mb	Low
Oct 24, 12:00	18.4N 87.7W	20 kt	1008 mb	Low
Oct 24, 18:00	18.8N 87.0W	20 kt	1008 mb	Low
Oct 25, 00:00	19.0N 86.2W	20 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Oct 25, 06:00	18.8N 85.3W	20 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Oct 25, 12:00	18.3N 84.5W	25 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Oct 25, 18:00	17.7N 83.7W	25 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Oct 26, 00:00	17.1N 82.9W	25 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Oct 26, 06:00	16.5N 82.2W	25 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Oct 26, 12:00	16.0N 81.8W	30 kt	1006 mb	Low
Oct 26, 18:00	15.5N 81.8W	30 kt	1006 mb	Low
Oct 27, 00:00	15.1N 82.0W	30 kt	1006 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 27, 06:00	15.0N 82.4W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 27, 12:00	14.9N 83.0W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 27, 16:00 landfall	14.9N 83.3W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 27, 18:00	14.9N 83.5W	30 kt	1006 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 28, 00:00	15.0N 84.3W	30 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 28, 06:00	15.4N 85.2W	25 kt	1008 mb	Low
Oct 28, 12:00	15.9N 85.9W	20 kt	1009 mb	Low
Oct 28, 18:00	16.5N 86.7W	20 kt	1010 mb	Low
Oct 29, 00:00	16.8N 87.6W	20 kt	1010 mb	Low
Oct 29, 06:00	16.9N 88.6W	20 kt	1011 mb	Low
Oct 29, 12:00	16.9N 89.6W	20 kt	1011 mb	Low
Oct 29, 18:00	16.8N 90.5W	15 kt	1012 mb	Low

Other North Atlantic storms of 2014

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.