Tropical Storm Karl (2022)
Tropical Storm Karl peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between October 11, 2022 and October 15, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb. It killed 3 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Karl, 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
- October 11, 2022 to October 15, 2022
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 997 mb (29.44 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 11 km (7 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 2.1
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi)
- Overall size
- 150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 7 kt (8 mph)
- Identifier
- AL142022
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
3 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) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 12:00 | 19.0N 94.1W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 11, 18:00 | 19.6N 94.5W | 35 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 12, 00:00 | 20.2N 94.8W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 12, 06:00 | 20.9N 94.9W | 35 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 12, 12:00 | 21.5N 94.8W | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 12, 18:00 | 22.0N 94.6W | 50 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 13, 00:00 | 22.4N 94.3W | 50 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 13, 06:00 | 22.4N 94.3W | 45 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 13, 12:00 | 21.9N 94.0W | 45 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 13, 18:00 | 21.3N 93.6W | 40 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 00:00 | 20.9N 93.0W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 06:00 | 20.3N 92.6W | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 12:00 | 19.8N 92.6W | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 18:00 | 19.4N 92.6W | 35 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 15, 00:00 | 19.0N 92.7W | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Low |
| Oct 15, 06:00 | 18.7N 92.9W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| Oct 15, 12:00 | 18.5N 93.3W | 20 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
| Oct 15, 18:00 | 18.4N 94.0W | 20 kt | 1010 mb | Low |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2022
- Tropical Storm AlexNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 4 deaths
- Hurricane BonnieNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 5 deaths
- Tropical Storm ColinNorth Atlantic · 2022 · 1 death
- 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
- 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.