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NORTH ATLANTIC · SEASON MAP

2000 Atlantic hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 19 storms · 7 Jun 2000–29 Oct 2000

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY119.1
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2000 Atlantic hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 19 storms, colored by the wind category at each observation. Hover or focus a storm in the table to highlight its track.UNITED STATESCANADAMEXICOCUBABRAZILAFRICAEUROPECHINAJAPANINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanArabian SeaBay of BengalUnnamed: 7 Jun–8 Jun, peak 25 kt, Tropical depressionUnnamed: 23 Jun–25 Jun, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionAlberto: 3 Aug–23 Aug, peak 110 kt, Category 3Unnamed: 8 Aug–11 Aug, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionBeryl: 13 Aug–15 Aug, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormChris: 17 Aug–19 Aug, peak 35 kt, Tropical stormDebby: 19 Aug–24 Aug, peak 75 kt, Category 1Ernesto: 1 Sep–3 Sep, peak 35 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 8 Sep–9 Sep, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionFlorence: 11 Sep–17 Sep, peak 70 kt, Category 1Gordon: 14 Sep–18 Sep, peak 70 kt, Category 1Helene: 15 Sep–25 Sep, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormIsaac: 21 Sep–1 Oct, peak 120 kt, Category 4Joyce: 25 Sep–2 Oct, peak 80 kt, Category 1Keith: 28 Sep–6 Oct, peak 120 kt, Category 4Leslie: 5 Oct–7 Oct, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormMichael: 17 Oct–19 Oct, peak 85 kt, Category 2Nadine: 19 Oct–21 Oct, peak 50 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 25 Oct–29 Oct, no US-agency wind

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Unnamed–25Tropical depression100860
Unnamed–30Tropical depression10081,100
Alberto–110Cat 39507,320
Unnamed–30Tropical depression1009450
Beryl–45Tropical storm1007380
Chris–35Tropical storm1008550
Debby–75Cat 19911,960
Ernesto–35Tropical storm1008800
Unnamed–30Tropical depression1008160
Florence–70Cat 19851,760
Gordon–70Cat 19812,060
Helene–60Tropical storm9864,490
Isaac–120Cat 49435,360
Joyce–80Cat 19752,120
Keith–120Cat 49391,190
Leslie–40Tropical storm10063,580
Michael–85Cat 29651,780
Nadine–50Tropical storm9991,020
Unnamed–—Unclassified—1,750

19 storms with an IBTrACS 2000 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 7 Jun 2000, last 29 Oct 2000.

Tropical storms15

Tropical-stage US-agency wind of 34 kt or more

Hurricanes8

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)3

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormIsaac

120 kt · 138 mph / 222 km/h

Lowest pressure939 hPa

Keith, 1 Oct 2000

Longest track record21.5 days

Alberto, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind1

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 2000 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season?

The archive records 8 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 15 tropical storms, with 3 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season?

Isaac, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 120 kt (Category 4) on 28 Sept 2000, 18:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 943 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 2000?

None. No storm in the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale in the archive.

When did the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 7 Jun 2000 and the last on 29 Oct 2000, from 19 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 2000 Atlantic hurricane season?

Alberto, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 6 Aug 2000, 00:00 UTC.

METHODOLOGY

Data sources and limitations

The map and totals are generated from NOAA’s IBTrACS v04r01 archive. A storm belongs to this page when the archive lists it in the North Atlantic basin for the 2000 season, so a December storm whose track ends in January stays with its season. Storms that cross between basins appear on the page of their archive basin only.

Counts use US-agency one-minute winds during the tropical stage: 34 kt for a tropical storm, 64 kt for hurricane strength and 96 kt for major intensity, on the Saffir–Simpson scale in every basin. Local agencies classify storms differently, and official season summaries can differ from the archive. Accumulated cyclone energy sums squared winds at six-hourly synoptic times, counting observations in the calendar year. Storms with no US-agency wind are mapped but cannot enter the counts.

The map frame is the same for every North Atlantic season, so a track that leaves it is cut at the edge. Lines show each storm’s center, not its size, rainfall or flood extent. Coastlines use Natural Earth’s 1:10m land data.

Archive retrieved

NOAA IBTrACS archive · Field documentation

Sources & methodology