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Hurricane Isidore 2002

Category 3 hurricane · Atlantic · September 14 to September 27, 2002

Isidore has landfall records in 3 different places: Cuba, Yucatán and Louisiana. It generated 27% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 2002 storm. It came ashore in Yucatán as a Category 3 hurricane on September 22, 2002, with 125 mph winds. The name Isidore is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Isidore (2002) from the best-track record, coloured by strength10°N20°N30°N40°N100°W90°W80°W70°W60°WCumanáCuba, 85 mphYucatán, 125 mphLouisiana, 65 mphPeak 125 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 300 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Isidore (2002) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 404080120160Sep 15Sep 17Sep 19Sep 21Sep 23Sep 25Sep 27mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 70 miles east-southeast of San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
  2. Tropical storm 75 miles south of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica
  3. Hurricane 125 miles southeast of Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba
  4. Landfall Cuba: Category 1, 85 mph, 964 mb
  5. Major hurricane 80 miles northeast of Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico
  6. Peak, 125 mph 60 miles northeast of Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico; lowest pressure 934 mb
  7. Landfall Yucatán
  8. Landfall Louisiana: tropical storm, 65 mph, 984 mb
  9. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  10. Last record 40 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind125 mph · tied 180th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure934 mb · tied 79th of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy17.8 · 291st of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone12.8 days · tied 103rd of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 2002 season

04080120160Isidore

Storm 10 of 14 in 2002, hurricane 2 of 4; it formed after Hanna and before Josephine. Isidore 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.

PlaceClosestWind thenDate
Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico4 mi75 mphSeptember 23
Progreso, Yucatán, Mexico5 mi50 mphSeptember 24
Motul, Yucatán, Mexico5 mi120 mphSeptember 22
Slidell, Louisiana6 mi65 mphSeptember 26
New Orleans, Louisiana8 mi65 mphSeptember 26
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico8 mi50 mphSeptember 24
Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela8 mi30 mphSeptember 15
Huntsville, Alabama10 mi25 mphSeptember 27

Every storm within 50 miles of Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

Also peaked at 125 mph

Of 40 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Kate (2003)952 mb, no landfall record
  • Alberto (2000)950 mb, no landfall record
  • Erika (1997)946 mb, no landfall record
  • Bertha (2008)952 mb, no landfall record