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Hurricane Tomas 2010

Category 2 hurricane · Atlantic · October 29 to November 7, 2010

Tomas has landfall records in 3 different places: Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Its 100 mph landfall in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on October 30, 2010 ranks the second-strongest of the 4 storms with a landfall record there. With a peak of 100 mph, it ranked tied for the eighth-strongest of the 21 storms of the 2010 season. The name Tomas is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Tomas (2010) from the best-track record, coloured by strength10°N20°N30°N40°N90°W80°W70°W60°W50°W40°WBarbados, 70 mphSaint Vincent and the Grenadines, 100 mphTurks and Caicos Islands, 70 mphPeak 100 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 200 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Tomas (2010) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 404080120Oct 30Nov 1Nov 3Nov 5Nov 7Nov 9mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 240 miles north-northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
  2. Tropical storm 275 miles north of Paramaribo, Suriname
  3. Landfall Barbados: tropical storm, 70 mph, 997 mb
  4. Hurricane 35 miles west of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados
  5. Peak 15 miles north of Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; lowest pressure 982 mb
  6. Landfall Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  7. Landfall Turks and Caicos Islands: tropical storm, 70 mph, 992 mb
  8. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 450 miles north-northeast of Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic
  9. Last record 435 miles southeast of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind100 mph · tied 515th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure982 mb · tied 536th of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy11.8 · tied 448th of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone9.5 days · tied 292nd of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 2010 season

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Storm 21 of 21 in 2010, hurricane 12 of 12; it formed after Shary. Tomas produced 7% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of 5 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
Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados6 mi70 mphOctober 30
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines16 mi100 mphOctober 30
Jérémie, Grand'Anse, Haiti34 mi85 mphNovember 5
Port-De-Paix, Nord-Ouest, Haiti36 mi70 mphNovember 5
Castries, Saint Lucia44 mi100 mphOctober 30

Every storm within 50 miles of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados

Also peaked at 100 mph

Of 85 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Dolly (2008)963 mb, landfall in Quintana Roo
  • Ernesto (2012)973 mb, landfall in Quintana Roo
  • Arthur (2014)973 mb, landfall in North Carolina
  • Gustav (2002)960 mb, landfall in Nova Scotia