Hurricane Epsilon (2020)
Hurricane Epsilon reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between October 16, 2020 and October 26, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 952 mb. It killed 1 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Epsilon, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2020 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- October 16, 2020 to October 26, 2020
- Peak strength
- Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 952 mb (28.11 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 382 km (237 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 13.3
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 390 nmi (722 km, 449 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)
- Overall size
- 380 nmi (704 km, 437 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 120 kt (138 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 49 kt (56 mph)
- Identifier
- AL272020
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
1 direct deathsnone recorded in the United States
The season table in NHC’s report archive, final report. Direct deaths are those caused by the storm’s own wind, water or surge, anywhere in the world.
NOAA Storm Events
1 deaths (1 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
- 1 (1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 rip current.
What forecast offices wrote
From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.
A 27-year old man from Ocala, Florida was swimming in rough surf with other family members at an unguarded portion of Daytona Beach during the early afternoon, when they got caught in a rip current. All family members except the 27-year old man returned safety to shore. The man disappeared in the surf and his body was recovered the following day about nine miles north of where he went missing. He died from drowning, after being caught in the rip current.
Volusia, Florida · Rip Current · Oct 24, 16:30 UTC
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 12:00 | 31.5N 54.9W | 20 kt | 1013 mb | Low |
| Oct 16, 18:00 | 31.2N 55.1W | 25 kt | 1011 mb | Low |
| Oct 17, 00:00 | 30.9N 55.5W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
| Oct 17, 06:00 | 30.7N 55.9W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
| Oct 17, 12:00 | 30.3N 56.2W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Oct 17, 18:00 | 29.7N 56.3W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Oct 18, 00:00 | 28.9N 56.3W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Low |
| Oct 18, 06:00 | 28.1N 56.3W | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Low |
| Oct 18, 12:00 | 27.3N 56.4W | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Low |
| Oct 18, 18:00 | 26.4N 56.6W | 30 kt | 1003 mb | Low |
| Oct 19, 00:00 | 25.7N 56.3W | 30 kt | 1003 mb | Low |
| Oct 19, 06:00 | 25.5N 55.9W | 30 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 19, 12:00 | 25.4N 55.6W | 35 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 19, 18:00 | 25.3N 55.4W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 20, 00:00 | 25.2N 55.2W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 20, 06:00 | 25.5N 54.9W | 45 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 20, 12:00 | 26.2N 54.7W | 50 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 20, 18:00 | 27.3N 55.3W | 55 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 21, 00:00 | 28.3N 56.3W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 21, 06:00 | 28.7N 57.7W | 75 kt | 976 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 21, 12:00 | 28.9N 58.7W | 85 kt | 968 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 21, 18:00 | 29.3N 59.6W | 100 kt | 955 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 22, 00:00 | 29.5N 60.4W | 100 kt | 952 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 22, 06:00 | 30.2N 60.9W | 90 kt | 958 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 22, 12:00 | 30.8N 61.3W | 80 kt | 965 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 22, 18:00 | 31.5N 61.5W | 75 kt | 968 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 23, 00:00 | 32.2N 61.6W | 75 kt | 968 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 23, 06:00 | 32.9N 61.6W | 75 kt | 968 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 23, 12:00 | 33.7N 61.6W | 75 kt | 966 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 23, 18:00 | 34.9N 61.7W | 75 kt | 964 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 24, 00:00 | 36.1N 62.0W | 75 kt | 962 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 24, 06:00 | 36.8N 62.1W | 75 kt | 957 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 24, 12:00 | 37.4N 61.3W | 75 kt | 957 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 24, 18:00 | 38.6N 59.7W | 70 kt | 960 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 25, 00:00 | 40.3N 57.6W | 65 kt | 962 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 25, 06:00 | 42.0N 55.2W | 65 kt | 963 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 25, 12:00 | 43.3N 51.8W | 65 kt | 964 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 25, 18:00 | 45.0N 46.9W | 60 kt | 966 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 26, 00:00 | 47.2N 41.2W | 60 kt | 968 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 26, 06:00 | 49.5N 34.7W | 60 kt | 969 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 26, 12:00 | 52.1N 28.5W | 60 kt | 964 mb | Extratropical |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2020
- Tropical Storm ArthurNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm BerthaNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm CristobalNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 6 deaths · $310 million
- Tropical Storm DollyNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm EdouardNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm FayNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 2 deaths · $220 million
- Tropical Storm GonzaloNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Hurricane HannaNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 4 deaths · $1.1 billion
- Hurricane IsaiasNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 12 deaths · $5.0 billion
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm JosephineNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm KyleNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Hurricane LauraNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 47 deaths · $19 billion
- Hurricane MarcoNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm OmarNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Hurricane NanaNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm ReneNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Hurricane PauletteNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 2 deaths
- Hurricane SallyNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 4 deaths · $7.3 billion
- Hurricane TeddyNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 2 deaths · $20 million
- Tropical Storm VickyNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm AlphaNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm WilfredNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Tropical Storm BetaNorth Atlantic · 2020 · $225 million
- Hurricane GammaNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 6 deaths
- Hurricane DeltaNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 2 deaths · $2.9 billion
- Hurricane ZetaNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 5 deaths · $4.4 billion
- Hurricane EtaNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 172 deaths · $1.5 billion
- Tropical Storm ThetaNorth Atlantic · 2020
- Hurricane IotaNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 67 deaths
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.