The 2019 season

Hurricane Humberto (2019)

Hurricane Humberto reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 12, 2019 and September 20, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 950 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Humberto, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2019 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
September 12, 2019 to September 20, 2019
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
950 mb (28.05 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 215 km (134 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
15.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
330 nmi (611 km, 380 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
360 nmi (667 km, 414 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
135 kt (155 mph)
Fastest the center moved
23 kt (26 mph)
Identifier
AL092019

Radar at KMLB as it neared land, Sep 15, 18:00 UTC

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 areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Puerto Rico001

What was recorded

1 coastal flood.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 12, 12:0023.0N 74.2W25 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 12, 18:0023.4N 74.3W25 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 13, 00:0023.8N 74.3W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 13, 06:0024.2N 74.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 13, 12:0024.7N 74.5W30 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 13, 18:0025.2N 74.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 00:0025.6N 75.2W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0026.0N 75.9W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0026.5N 76.5W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0027.0N 77.0W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0027.5N 77.3W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0028.0N 77.6W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0028.6N 77.9W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0029.1N 78.1W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0029.2N 77.8W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 06:0029.5N 77.3W70 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 12:0029.8N 76.7W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 18:0030.1N 76.1W75 kt975 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 00:0030.3N 75.4W80 kt966 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 06:0030.5N 74.7W85 kt964 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 12:0030.7N 73.8W90 kt961 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 18:0030.9N 72.9W95 kt956 mbHurricane
Sep 18, 00:0031.2N 71.6W100 kt952 mbHurricane
Sep 18, 06:0031.5N 70.3W105 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 18, 12:0032.0N 68.8W105 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 18, 18:0032.5N 67.2W110 kt950 mbHurricane
Sep 19, 00:0033.2N 65.0W110 kt950 mbHurricane
Sep 19, 06:0034.5N 62.9W105 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 19, 12:0036.0N 60.8W95 kt955 mbHurricane
Sep 19, 18:0037.7N 59.3W80 kt961 mbHurricane
Sep 20, 00:0039.1N 58.5W70 kt967 mbExtratropical
Sep 20, 06:0040.4N 58.0W60 kt972 mbExtratropical
Sep 20, 12:0041.5N 57.5W50 kt977 mbExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 2019

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.