NHC AL012020 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Arthur (2020)
May 16, 2020 – May 21, 2020
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Arthur peaked at Tropical storm with 63 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 15 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Arthur in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Arthur from May 16, 2020 to May 21, 2020; its peak was 63 mph (tropical storm). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 15 US cities, all in North Carolina. The strongest pass was 52 mph (tropical storm) 50 miles from Beaufort, NC.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 15
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
63 mph
when closest
Cities Arthur passed near, strongest first
North Carolina (15)
- BeaufortTropical storm · 50 mi
- Morehead CityTropical storm · 53 mi
- Atlantic BeachTropical storm · 54 mi
- Nags HeadTropical storm · 58 mi
- ManteoTropical storm · 60 mi
- NewportTropical storm · 61 mi
- OrientalTropical storm · 63 mi
- Kill Devil HillsTropical storm · 65 mi
- HavelockTropical storm · 65 mi
- Cherry PointTropical storm · 66 mi
- BayboroTropical storm · 70 mi
- Kitty HawkTropical storm · 71 mi
- GrantsboroTropical storm · 72 mi
- Emerald IsleTropical storm · 65 mi
- SwansboroTropical storm · 70 mi
Other storms of the 2020 season
- BerthaTropical storm · 64 cities
- CristobalTropical storm · 276 cities
- FayTropical storm · 885 cities
- DouglasCategory 4 · 43 cities
- HannaCategory 1 · 44 cities
- IsaiasCategory 1 · 2,213 cities
- LauraCategory 4 · 327 cities
- MarcoCategory 1 · 6 cities
- SallyCategory 2 · 191 cities
- BetaTropical storm · 49 cities
- DeltaCategory 4 · 169 cities
- ZetaCategory 3 · 1,509 cities
- EtaCategory 4 · 240 cities
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.