Tropical Storm Colin (2022)
Tropical Storm Colin peaked at 35 kt in the North Atlantic between July 1, 2022 and July 2, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 1011 mb, and made landfall. It killed 1 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Colin, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- July 1, 2022 to July 2, 2022
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1011 mb (29.85 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.4
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
- Overall size
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 11 kt (13 mph)
- Identifier
- AL032022
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 3 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.
Landfall
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 23:30 | Beaufort, SC, 16 km away | 32.4N 80.5W | 35 kt (40 mph) | 1011 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.
In the United States
NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled June 2026.
- Deaths
- 1 (1 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 10 in 5 reports from 3 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Atlantic South | 0 | 0 | 4 |
What was recorded
4 marine tropical storm, 3 tropical storm, 2 strong wind, 1 rip current.
Wind reports
The strongest winds National Weather Service offices recorded with this storm. An estimated figure is a forecaster’s judgment from the damage, not an instrument reading.
| Wind | How | Where | State | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kt (46 mph) | Estimated | Charleston | South Carolina | Jul 1, 21:45 |
| 40 kt (46 mph) | Estimated | Charleston | South Carolina | Jul 2, 01:06 |
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 18:00 | 31.8N 80.5W | 30 kt | 1014 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 1, 23:30 landfall | 32.4N 80.5W | 35 kt | 1011 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 2, 00:00 | 32.5N 80.4W | 35 kt | 1011 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 2, 06:00 | 33.0N 79.9W | 35 kt | 1011 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 2, 12:00 | 33.4N 79.4W | 35 kt | 1011 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 2, 18:00 | 33.8N 78.9W | 30 kt | 1015 mb | Tropical depression |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2022
- Tropical Storm AlexNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 4 deaths
- Hurricane BonnieNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 5 deaths
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2022
- Hurricane DanielleNorth Atlantic · 2022
- Hurricane EarlNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 2 deaths
- Hurricane FionaNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 7 deaths · $2.5 billion
- Tropical Storm GastonNorth Atlantic · 2022
- Hurricane IanNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 66 deaths · $113 billion
- Tropical Storm HermineNorth Atlantic · 2022
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2022
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2022
- Hurricane JuliaNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 35 deaths
- Tropical Storm KarlNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 3 deaths
- Hurricane LisaNorth Atlantic · 2022
- Hurricane MartinNorth Atlantic · 2022
- Hurricane NicoleNorth Atlantic · 2022 · $1.0 billion
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.