Tropical Storm Karen (2025)
Tropical Storm Karen peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between October 8, 2025 and October 11, 2025, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Karen, 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
- October 8, 2025 to October 11, 2025
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 996 mb (29.41 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 1200 km (746 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.0
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
- Overall size
- 300 nmi (556 km, 345 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 20 kt (23 mph)
- Identifier
- AL112025
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) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 00:00 | 38.0N 35.9W | 45 kt | 1014 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 8, 06:00 | 39.9N 36.0W | 45 kt | 1006 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 8, 12:00 | 41.2N 36.7W | 50 kt | 1000 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 8, 18:00 | 41.4N 36.9W | 50 kt | 996 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 9, 00:00 | 41.9N 35.7W | 45 kt | 997 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 9, 06:00 | 42.8N 35.1W | 45 kt | 997 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 9, 12:00 | 43.5N 34.8W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 9, 18:00 | 43.9N 34.2W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 10, 00:00 | 44.4N 33.5W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 10, 06:00 | 45.0N 32.6W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 10, 12:00 | 45.7N 31.5W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 10, 18:00 | 46.8N 30.6W | 35 kt | 1000 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 11, 00:00 | 48.0N 29.7W | 35 kt | 1003 mb | Low |
| Oct 11, 06:00 | 49.4N 28.7W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Low |
| Oct 11, 12:00 | 51.3N 28.0W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Low |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2025
- Tropical Storm AndreaNorth Atlantic · 2025
- Tropical Storm BarryNorth Atlantic · 2025 · 8 deaths
- Tropical Storm ChantalNorth Atlantic · 2025 · 6 deaths · $500 million
- Hurricane DexterNorth Atlantic · 2025
- Hurricane ErinNorth Atlantic · 2025 · 13 deaths · $3.0 million
- Tropical Storm FernandNorth Atlantic · 2025
- Hurricane GabrielleNorth Atlantic · 2025
- Hurricane HumbertoNorth Atlantic · 2025
- Hurricane ImeldaNorth Atlantic · 2025 · 2 deaths
- Tropical Storm JerryNorth Atlantic · 2025 · 1 death
- 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.