NHC AL052024 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Ernesto (2024)
August 11, 2024 – August 20, 2024
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Ernesto peaked at Category 2 with 98 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 64 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Ernesto in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Ernesto from August 11, 2024 to August 20, 2024; its peak was 98 mph (Category 2). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 64 US cities, all in Puerto Rico. The strongest pass was 71 mph (tropical storm) 70 miles from Isabela, PR; the centre came closest to Luquillo, PR, 29 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 64
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
98 mph
when closest
Cities Ernesto passed near, strongest first
Puerto Rico (64)
- IsabelaTropical storm · 70 mi
- San AntonioTropical storm · 72 mi
- AreciboTropical storm · 58 mi
- HatilloTropical storm · 63 mi
- CamuyTropical storm · 65 mi
- QuebradillasTropical storm · 68 mi
- LaresTropical storm · 74 mi
- Toa BajaTropical storm · 41 mi
- DoradoTropical storm · 42 mi
- Vega AltaTropical storm · 46 mi
- Vega BajaTropical storm · 46 mi
- ManatiTropical storm · 51 mi
- BarcelonetaTropical storm · 52 mi
- CorozalTropical storm · 52 mi
- GarrochalesTropical storm · 54 mi
- MorovisTropical storm · 54 mi
- Sabana HoyosTropical storm · 57 mi
- FloridaTropical storm · 58 mi
- CialesTropical storm · 58 mi
- OrocovisTropical storm · 61 mi
- JayuyaTropical storm · 67 mi
- VillalbaTropical storm · 68 mi
- UtuadoTropical storm · 68 mi
- Coto LaurelTropical storm · 74 mi
- Juana DiazTropical storm · 74 mi
- AdjuntasTropical storm · 75 mi
- CarolinaTropical storm · 35 mi
- San JuanTropical storm · 38 mi
- CatanoTropical storm · 38 mi
- Trujillo AltoTropical storm · 39 mi
- GuaynaboTropical storm · 42 mi
- BayamonTropical storm · 43 mi
- Toa AltaTropical storm · 45 mi
- CaguasTropical storm · 47 mi
- Aguas BuenasTropical storm · 49 mi
- NaranjitoTropical storm · 50 mi
- ComerioTropical storm · 54 mi
- CidraTropical storm · 55 mi
- BarranquitasTropical storm · 58 mi
- CayeyTropical storm · 58 mi
- AibonitoTropical storm · 61 mi
- CoamoTropical storm · 66 mi
- SalinasTropical storm · 69 mi
- AguirreTropical storm · 69 mi
- Santa IsabelTropical storm · 74 mi
- LuquilloTropical storm · 29 mi
- LoizaTropical storm · 30 mi
- Rio GrandeTropical storm · 32 mi
- CanovanasTropical storm · 35 mi
- NaguaboTropical storm · 38 mi
- JuncosTropical storm · 44 mi
- GuraboTropical storm · 44 mi
- Las PiedrasTropical storm · 44 mi
- HumacaoTropical storm · 45 mi
- San LorenzoTropical storm · 50 mi
- YabucoaTropical storm · 52 mi
- MaunaboTropical storm · 56 mi
- PatillasTropical storm · 59 mi
- ArroyoTropical storm · 62 mi
- GuayamaTropical storm · 65 mi
and 4 more
Other storms of the 2024 season
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.