Hurricane Oscar (2024)

Hurricane Oscar reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between October 19, 2024 and October 22, 2024, with a lowest pressure of 984 mb, and made landfall. It killed 8 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Oscar, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2024 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: October 19, 2024 to October 22, 2024
Peak strength: Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure: 984 mb (29.06 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 4.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached: 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)
Overall size: 130 nmi (241 km, 150 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 90 kt (104 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier: AL162024

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

National Hurricane Center

8 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.

Landfalls

Time (UTC)	Where	Position	Wind	Pressure
Oct 19, 20:15	Coast unnamed here	21.5N 71.1W	75 kt (86 mph)	987 mb
Oct 20, 22:00	Baracoa, Guantanamo Province, Cuba, 11 km away	20.3N 74.4W	75 kt (86 mph)	984 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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Oct 19, 00:00	21.0N 66.5W	35 kt	1007 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 19, 06:00	21.2N 68.2W	45 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 19, 12:00	21.3N 69.8W	55 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 19, 18:00	21.4N 70.6W	70 kt	989 mb	Hurricane
Oct 19, 20:15 landfall	21.5N 71.1W	75 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Oct 20, 00:00	21.5N 71.7W	75 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Oct 20, 06:00	21.1N 72.7W	70 kt	988 mb	Hurricane
Oct 20, 12:00	20.8N 73.6W	70 kt	986 mb	Hurricane
Oct 20, 18:00	20.5N 74.0W	75 kt	984 mb	Hurricane
Oct 20, 22:00 landfall	20.3N 74.4W	75 kt	984 mb	Hurricane
Oct 21, 00:00	20.2N 74.5W	65 kt	988 mb	Hurricane
Oct 21, 06:00	20.1N 75.0W	50 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 21, 12:00	20.3N 75.4W	40 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 21, 18:00	20.7N 75.9W	35 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 22, 00:00	21.5N 75.6W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 22, 06:00	22.2N 75.1W	35 kt	1006 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 22, 12:00	22.7N 74.6W	35 kt	1007 mb	Tropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 2024

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.