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Hurricane Noel 2007

Category 1 hurricane · Atlantic · October 28 to November 2, 2007

Noel has landfall records in 3 different places: Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas. Its 65 mph landfall in the Bahamas on November 1, 2007 ranks the 24th-strongest of the 29 storms with a landfall record there. With a peak of 80 mph, it ranked tied for the fourth-strongest of the 17 storms of the 2007 season. The name Noel is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Noel (2007) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N40°N50°N60°N100°W90°W80°W70°W60°W50°W40°W30°W20°WHaiti, 50 mphCuba, 60 mphBahamas, 60 mphPeak 80 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 100 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Noel (2007) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 304080120Oct 25Oct 27Oct 29Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6mph
  1. First record (low) 125 miles east-northeast of Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda
  2. Tropical storm 120 miles south of Pedernales, the Dominican Republic
  3. Landfall Haiti: tropical storm, 50 mph, 1002 mb
  4. Landfall Cuba: tropical storm, 60 mph, 997 mb
  5. Landfall Bahamas: tropical storm, 60 mph, 993 mb
  6. Landfall Bahamas
  7. Hurricane 105 miles north-northeast of Nassau, the Bahamas
  8. Peak 105 miles north-northeast of Nassau, the Bahamas; lowest pressure 980 mb
  9. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 335 miles east-southeast of Jacksonville, North Carolina
  10. Last record 1,090 miles north-northeast of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind80 mph · tied 762nd of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure980 mb · tied 497th of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy5.6 · 796th of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone5.8 days · tied 733rd of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 2007 season

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Storm 16 of 17 in 2007, hurricane 6 of 6; it formed after Fifteen and before Olga. Noel produced 8% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. 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
Jacmel, Sud-Est, Haiti1 mi50 mphOctober 29
Camagüey, Cuba2 mi40 mphOctober 31
Nassau, the Bahamas2 mi65 mphNovember 1
Holguín, Cuba5 mi50 mphOctober 30
Banes, Holguín, Cuba9 mi60 mphOctober 30
Las Tunas, Cuba11 mi45 mphOctober 30
Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti20 mi50 mphOctober 29
Gonaïves, L'Artibonite, Haiti21 mi45 mphOctober 29

Every storm within 50 miles of Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti

Similar landfalls in Bahamas

Storms whose strongest landfall record in the Bahamas came closest to Noel's 65 mph:

  • Janice (1958)70 mph, October 6, 1958
  • Imelda (2025)50 mph, September 29, 2025
  • Nicole (2022)75 mph, November 9, 2022
  • Storm 4 of 194675 mph, September 12, 1946

All 29 storms with a landfall record in Bahamas

Also peaked at 80 mph

Of 151 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Philippe (2005)985 mb, no landfall record
  • Stan (2005)977 mb, landfall in Quintana Roo
  • Maria (2011)983 mb, landfall in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Isaac (2012)965 mb, landfall in Haiti