All storm pages · 2024 Atlantic season
Hurricane Beryl 2024
Category 5 hurricane · Atlantic · June 28 to July 9, 2024
Beryl reached hurricane strength as far south as 10.1°N, tied for the third-lowest-latitude hurricane position of any Atlantic hurricane. It reached Category 5 with 165 mph winds, one of 44 Atlantic storms to do so since 1851. It has landfall records in 3 different places: Grenada, Quintana Roo and Texas. The name Beryl is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 1,085 miles east-northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
- Tropical storm 860 miles east-northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
- Hurricane 435 miles northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
- Major hurricane 330 miles north-northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
- Landfall Grenada
- Peak 250 miles south-southwest of Christiansted, the US Virgin Islands; lowest pressure 932 mb
- Landfall Quintana Roo: Category 1, 90 mph, 977 mb
- Landfall Texas: Category 1, 90 mph, 978 mb
- No longer tropical (extratropical low) near Conway, Arkansas
- Last record 20 miles northeast of Buffalo, New York
Against every Atlantic storm since 1851
More from the record
It generated 22% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 2024 storm.
It came ashore in Grenada as a Category 4 hurricane on July 1, 2024, with 140 mph winds.
Its winds climbed 65 mph in the 24 hours to June 30.
In the 2024 season
Storm 2 of 18 in 2024, hurricane 1 of 11; it formed after Alberto and before Chris. Beryl ranks second by peak wind in the season. See the season.
Places the center passed
The center came within 50 miles of at least 8 towns or cities of 10,000 people or more while the system was tropical. Distances are to the interpolated track line, not the storm's edge.
| Place | Closest | Wind then | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valladolid, Yucatán, Mexico | 1 mi | 75 mph | July 5 |
| Huntsville, Texas | 2 mi | 60 mph | July 8 |
| Bay City, Texas | 2 mi | 85 mph | July 8 |
| Motul, Yucatán, Mexico | 2 mi | 65 mph | July 5 |
| Progreso, Yucatán, Mexico | 3 mi | 60 mph | July 5 |
| Longview, Texas | 4 mi | 35 mph | July 9 |
| Izamal, Yucatán, Mexico | 5 mi | 70 mph | July 5 |
| Conroe, Texas | 15 mi | 65 mph | July 8 |
Also peaked at 165 mph
Of 6 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:
- Lee (2023)926 mb, landfall in Nova Scotia
- Matthew (2016)934 mb, landfall in Haiti
- Ivan (2004)910 mb, landfall in Alabama
- Isabel (2003)915 mb, landfall in North Carolina