The 2022 season

Tropical Storm Gaston (2022)

Tropical Storm Gaston peaked at 55 kt in the North Atlantic between September 19, 2022 and September 27, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Gaston, 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
September 19, 2022 to September 27, 2022
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1225 km (761 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
65 kt (75 mph)
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
AL082022

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.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 19, 12:0028.7N 46.3W25 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 19, 18:0029.6N 45.8W25 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 20, 00:0030.4N 45.8W25 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 20, 06:0031.3N 45.9W25 kt1013 mbLow
Sep 20, 12:0032.5N 45.8W30 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 18:0034.0N 45.0W35 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0035.5N 44.1W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0036.9N 43.1W55 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0037.9N 42.0W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0038.6N 40.7W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0039.4N 38.6W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0040.1N 36.5W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0040.7N 34.8W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0041.0N 33.1W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0041.1N 31.5W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0040.9N 30.1W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0040.5N 29.2W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0039.8N 28.8W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0039.1N 29.2W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0038.7N 29.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0038.2N 30.4W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0038.0N 31.4W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0038.4N 32.7W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0038.9N 34.1W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0039.4N 35.7W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0039.2N 37.0W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0038.8N 37.7W35 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 26, 06:0038.5N 38.5W35 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 26, 12:0038.4N 39.4W30 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 26, 18:0038.2N 40.4W30 kt1012 mbLow
Sep 27, 00:0038.0N 41.5W30 kt1012 mbLow
Sep 27, 06:0037.6N 42.8W30 kt1013 mbLow
Sep 27, 12:0037.2N 44.2W25 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 27, 18:0037.0N 45.9W25 kt1015 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.