All storm pages · 2020 Atlantic season
Hurricane Teddy 2020
Category 4 hurricane · Atlantic · September 12 to September 23, 2020
Tropical-storm-force winds reached 541 miles from Teddy's center, the second-widest reach among the 364 Atlantic storms with wind-radius data (kept since 2004). Its hurricane-force winds extended 127 miles from the center, tied for the fourth-widest hurricane-force field of the 171 Atlantic hurricanes measured this way since 2004. It generated 15% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 2020 storm.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) far out at sea, at 11.0°N, 31.4°W
- Tropical storm far out at sea, at 12.9°N, 38.7°W
- Hurricane 780 miles northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
- Major hurricane 605 miles east-northeast of Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France
- Peak, 140 mph 535 miles east-northeast of Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda; lowest pressure 945 mb
- No longer tropical (extratropical low) 100 miles south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Last record 280 miles north-northeast of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Against every Atlantic storm since 1851
In the 2020 season
Storm 20 of 31 in 2020, hurricane 8 of 14; it formed after Sally and before Vicky. Teddy ranks joint fourth by peak wind in the season. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Hamilton, Bermuda, 156 miles from the center on September 21 (Category 1 hurricane stage).
Also peaked at 140 mph
Of 34 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:
- Fiona (2022)931 mb, landfall in Guadeloupe
- Nicole (2016)950 mb, no landfall record
- Helene (2024)939 mb, landfall in Florida
- Gabrielle (2025)944 mb, no landfall record