The 2015 season

Hurricane Danny (2015)

Hurricane Danny reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between August 17, 2015 and August 24, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Danny, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2015 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
August 17, 2015 to August 24, 2015
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 530 km (329 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)
Overall size
175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
120 kt (138 mph)
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
AL042015

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 17, 00:009.6N 29.3W25 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 17, 06:009.6N 30.4W25 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 17, 12:009.7N 31.5W25 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 17, 18:0010.0N 32.6W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 18, 00:0010.3N 33.7W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 18, 06:0010.4N 34.8W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 12:0010.5N 35.9W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0010.7N 37.1W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0010.9N 38.4W45 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0011.0N 39.5W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0011.2N 40.6W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0011.5N 41.5W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0011.7N 42.5W55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0011.9N 43.5W60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0012.3N 44.4W65 kt995 mbHurricane
Aug 20, 18:0012.8N 45.3W75 kt990 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 00:0013.2N 46.2W85 kt981 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 06:0013.5N 47.0W95 kt973 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 12:0013.8N 47.8W110 kt960 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 18:0014.3N 48.6W105 kt966 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 00:0014.7N 49.4W95 kt973 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 06:0015.0N 50.3W85 kt980 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 12:0015.3N 51.4W75 kt985 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 18:0015.5N 52.7W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Aug 23, 00:0015.6N 54.0W55 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0015.7N 55.3W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0015.7N 56.7W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0015.6N 58.2W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0015.6N 59.3W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0015.8N 60.4W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0015.8N 61.3W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 2015

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.