Rafael was a TS tropical cyclone that formed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2012. The storm reached maximum sustained winds of 148 km/h (80 kt) with a minimum central pressure of 966 hPa. Tracking across the Gulf of Mexicoin the North Atlantic basin (, it potentially affected the US Gulf Coast, Mexico and Cuba. The storm traveled from approximately 14.7°-65.8° to 56.6°-7.5°, crossing a range of 42 latitude and 58 longitude.