Tropical Storm Josephine (2020)
Tropical Storm Josephine peaked at 40 kt in the North Atlantic between August 10, 2020 and August 16, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Josephine, 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
- August 10, 2020 to August 16, 2020
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 232 km (144 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 1.5
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi)
- Overall size
- 150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 18 kt (21 mph)
- Identifier
- AL112020
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
0 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 heavy rain.
What forecast offices wrote
From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.
Fifteen people trapped along Rio Tanama due to a water surge. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain fell across the area according to doppler radar estimates.
Utuado, Puerto Rico · Heavy Rain · Aug 16, 18:00 UTC
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 18:00 | 11.1N 34.2W | 25 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
| Aug 11, 00:00 | 11.3N 35.4W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Aug 11, 06:00 | 11.4N 36.8W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 11, 12:00 | 11.5N 38.2W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 11, 18:00 | 11.7N 39.6W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 12, 00:00 | 11.9N 41.0W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 12, 06:00 | 12.0N 42.3W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 12, 12:00 | 12.1N 43.7W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 12, 18:00 | 12.2N 44.9W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 13, 00:00 | 12.4N 46.1W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 13, 06:00 | 12.7N 47.3W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 13, 12:00 | 13.4N 48.6W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 13, 18:00 | 14.0N 50.0W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 14, 00:00 | 14.5N 51.3W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 14, 06:00 | 15.1N 52.8W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 14, 12:00 | 16.2N 54.2W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 14, 18:00 | 17.4N 55.6W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 15, 00:00 | 18.0N 56.9W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 15, 06:00 | 18.4N 58.3W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 15, 12:00 | 18.8N 59.7W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 15, 18:00 | 19.6N 60.9W | 35 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 16, 00:00 | 19.8N 62.1W | 35 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 16, 06:00 | 20.0N 63.4W | 30 kt | 1010 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 16, 12:00 | 20.2N 64.5W | 30 kt | 1010 mb | Tropical depression |
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 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 EpsilonNorth Atlantic · 2020 · 1 death
- 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.