The 2022 season

Hurricane Roslyn (2022)

Hurricane Roslyn reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between October 20, 2022 and October 24, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 954 mb, and made landfall. It killed 3 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Roslyn, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
October 20, 2022 to October 24, 2022
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
954 mb (28.17 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 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
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
140 kt (161 mph)
Fastest the center moved
28 kt (32 mph)
Identifier
EP192022

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.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 23, 11:20Tuxpan, Nayarit, Mexico, 31 km away21.9N 105.6W105 kt (121 mph)961 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
Oct 20, 00:0015.1N 100.9W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 20, 06:0015.1N 101.3W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 20, 12:0015.1N 101.8W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 18:0015.3N 102.4W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 00:0015.6N 103.0W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 06:0015.9N 103.5W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0016.2N 104.1W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0016.4N 104.7W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0016.6N 105.3W75 kt982 mbHurricane
Oct 22, 06:0017.0N 105.8W100 kt963 mbHurricane
Oct 22, 12:0017.6N 106.2W110 kt955 mbHurricane
Oct 22, 18:0018.5N 106.6W115 kt954 mbHurricane
Oct 23, 00:0019.5N 106.7W115 kt954 mbHurricane
Oct 23, 06:0020.5N 106.4W110 kt958 mbHurricane
Oct 23, 11:20 landfall21.9N 105.6W105 kt961 mbHurricane
Oct 23, 12:0022.1N 105.5W100 kt962 mbHurricane
Oct 23, 18:0023.9N 103.9W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0025.6N 101.5W25 kt1006 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific 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.