Hurricane Imelda (2025)
Hurricane Imelda reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between September 26, 2025 and October 6, 2025, with a lowest pressure of 966 mb, and made landfall. It killed 2 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Imelda, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2025 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
- September 26, 2025 to October 6, 2025
- Peak strength
- Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 966 mb (28.53 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 6.0
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 450 nmi (833 km, 518 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 90 nmi (167 km, 104 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
- 105 kt (121 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 35 kt (40 mph)
- Identifier
- AL092025
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
2 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
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$1,900
What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 12:00 | Coast unnamed here | 26.4N 77.1W | 45 kt (52 mph) | 989 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 August 2026.
- Deaths
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,900
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 4 in 2 reports from 2 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | 0 | 0 | $1,900 | 3 |
| Maryland | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What was recorded
2 flood, 1 debris flow, 1 coastal flood.
What forecast offices wrote
From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.
Emergency managers reported flooding affecting the exit from Expreso Rafael Martinez Nadal toward Avenida Gonzalez Giusti/San Patricio Village, in front of the Dennis Restaurant near Plaza San Patricio in Guaynabo. The roadway has been closed and is currently impassable for all traffic.
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico · Flood · Sep 27, 18:35 UTC
A snap-back event occurred early on Oct 02, 2025 resulting in moderate coastal flooding at Annapolis. The Annapolis NOS gauge reached a crest of 3.66' MLLW at 106 AM on Oct 6th. Lead time for this event was 15.7 hours.
Anne Arundel, Maryland · Coastal Flood · Oct 2, 04:24 UTC
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 18:00 | 20.9N 74.9W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 27, 00:00 | 21.3N 75.5W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 27, 06:00 | 21.6N 75.8W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 27, 12:00 | 21.9N 76.1W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 27, 18:00 | 22.1N 76.4W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 28, 00:00 | 22.4N 76.7W | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 28, 06:00 | 22.7N 77.1W | 30 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 28, 12:00 | 23.1N 77.4W | 30 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 28, 18:00 | 23.8N 77.3W | 35 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 29, 00:00 | 24.6N 77.1W | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 29, 06:00 | 25.3N 77.1W | 40 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 29, 12:00 landfall | 26.4N 77.1W | 45 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 29, 18:00 | 27.3N 77.3W | 50 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 30, 00:00 | 28.0N 77.3W | 55 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 30, 06:00 | 28.6N 77.2W | 55 kt | 983 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 30, 12:00 | 28.9N 76.9W | 65 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 30, 18:00 | 29.2N 76.0W | 70 kt | 979 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 1, 00:00 | 29.4N 74.8W | 70 kt | 977 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 1, 06:00 | 29.9N 73.1W | 75 kt | 973 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 1, 12:00 | 30.7N 71.4W | 80 kt | 968 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 1, 18:00 | 31.2N 69.2W | 80 kt | 966 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 2, 00:00 | 31.8N 66.4W | 80 kt | 971 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 2, 06:00 | 32.6N 63.2W | 80 kt | 974 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 2, 12:00 | 33.0N 60.8W | 70 kt | 977 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 2, 18:00 | 33.5N 57.5W | 60 kt | 986 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 3, 00:00 | 34.5N 53.4W | 55 kt | 990 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 3, 06:00 | 35.7N 51.1W | 55 kt | 990 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 3, 12:00 | 37.3N 49.3W | 55 kt | 986 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 3, 18:00 | 38.9N 49.1W | 60 kt | 979 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 4, 00:00 | 39.7N 49.0W | 65 kt | 978 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 4, 06:00 | 40.8N 48.5W | 60 kt | 979 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 4, 12:00 | 42.0N 47.5W | 55 kt | 981 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 4, 18:00 | 43.5N 45.8W | 50 kt | 983 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 5, 00:00 | 45.3N 44.0W | 45 kt | 984 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 5, 06:00 | 46.9N 41.9W | 45 kt | 984 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 5, 12:00 | 48.6N 39.6W | 50 kt | 983 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 5, 18:00 | 49.5N 36.5W | 50 kt | 984 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 6, 00:00 | 50.3N 33.0W | 45 kt | 988 mb | Extratropical |
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- Tropical Storm KarenNorth Atlantic · 2025
- Tropical Storm LorenzoNorth Atlantic · 2025
- Hurricane MelissaNorth Atlantic · 2025 · 93 deaths
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.