The 2022 season

Hurricane Bonnie (2022)

Hurricane Bonnie reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between June 27, 2022 and July 11, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 964 mb, and made landfall. It killed 5 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Bonnie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2022 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
June 27, 2022 to July 11, 2022
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
964 mb (28.47 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
16.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
120 kt (138 mph)
Fastest the center moved
27 kt (31 mph)
Identifier
AL022022

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

National Hurricane Center

5 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.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Jul 2, 03:00Guápiles, Limon Province, Costa Rica, 87 km away11.0N 83.8W50 kt (58 mph)996 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)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 27, 18:008.3N 50.5W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 28, 00:008.7N 52.2W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 28, 06:009.1N 54.2W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 28, 12:009.6N 56.5W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 28, 18:0010.2N 58.9W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 29, 00:0010.7N 61.6W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 29, 06:0011.1N 64.0W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 29, 12:0011.4N 66.2W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 29, 18:0011.7N 68.0W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 30, 00:0011.9N 69.7W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 30, 06:0012.0N 71.4W35 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jun 30, 12:0012.0N 73.1W35 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Jun 30, 18:0012.0N 74.9W35 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jul 1, 00:0011.9N 76.7W35 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Jul 1, 06:0011.6N 78.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0011.3N 80.2W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 18:0011.2N 81.8W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0010.9N 83.1W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 03:00 landfall11.0N 83.8W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0011.1N 84.5W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0011.2N 85.9W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 18:0011.2N 87.4W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0011.2N 88.9W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0011.5N 90.4W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0011.8N 91.9W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0012.2N 93.4W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0012.9N 94.9W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Jul 4, 06:0013.4N 96.6W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 4, 12:0013.6N 98.2W75 kt984 mbHurricane
Jul 4, 18:0013.8N 99.6W85 kt978 mbHurricane
Jul 5, 00:0014.4N 100.9W90 kt974 mbHurricane
Jul 5, 06:0014.9N 102.4W95 kt968 mbHurricane
Jul 5, 12:0015.1N 103.8W100 kt964 mbHurricane
Jul 5, 18:0015.4N 105.1W95 kt967 mbHurricane
Jul 6, 00:0015.6N 106.4W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 6, 06:0015.8N 107.6W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Jul 6, 12:0016.0N 108.5W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Jul 6, 18:0016.3N 109.5W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Jul 7, 00:0016.6N 110.6W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 7, 06:0016.9N 111.8W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 7, 12:0017.2N 113.1W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 7, 18:0017.5N 114.5W85 kt976 mbHurricane
Jul 8, 00:0017.8N 116.1W85 kt976 mbHurricane
Jul 8, 06:0018.0N 117.7W75 kt982 mbHurricane
Jul 8, 12:0018.2N 119.3W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Jul 8, 18:0018.6N 121.0W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0019.0N 122.8W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0019.2N 124.7W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0019.4N 126.6W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0019.5N 128.6W40 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 10, 00:0019.6N 130.5W35 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 10, 06:0019.5N 132.3W35 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 10, 12:0019.4N 134.0W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 10, 18:0019.4N 135.5W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 11, 00:0019.4N 136.9W25 kt1010 mbLow

Other North Atlantic storms of 2022

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.