The 1852 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1852)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between September 26, 1852 and October 5, 1852.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1852 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 26, 1852 to October 5, 1852
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 1384 km (860 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1852271N15328

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 26, 12:0015.0N 31.9WTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0015.5N 32.8WTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0016.0N 33.6WTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0016.5N 34.2WTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0017.0N 34.7WTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0017.5N 35.3WTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0018.0N 35.8WTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0018.7N 36.2WTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0019.4N 36.6WTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0020.1N 37.0WTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0020.7N 37.4WTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0021.5N 37.7WTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0022.2N 37.9WTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0023.1N 38.1WTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0023.7N 38.3WTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0024.3N 38.4WTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0024.9N 38.5WTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0025.5N 38.5WTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0026.0N 38.5WTropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0026.6N 38.5WTropical storm
Oct 1, 12:0027.2N 38.5WTropical storm
Oct 1, 18:0027.8N 38.3WTropical storm
Oct 2, 00:0028.4N 38.2WTropical storm
Oct 2, 06:0029.1N 38.0WTropical storm
Oct 2, 12:0029.8N 37.8WTropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0030.5N 37.3WTropical storm
Oct 3, 00:0031.2N 36.9WTropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0032.0N 36.3WTropical storm
Oct 3, 12:0032.7N 35.8WTropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0033.5N 35.1WTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0034.3N 34.5WTropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0035.3N 33.7WTropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0036.6N 32.9WTropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0037.8N 32.1WTropical storm
Oct 5, 00:0039.5N 29.5WTropical storm
Oct 5, 06:0044.0N 26.5WExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1852

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.