The 1853 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1853)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between November 13, 1853 and November 28, 1853.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1853 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
November 13, 1853 to November 28, 1853
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 81 km (50 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1853318N20288

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
Nov 13, 12:0020.5N 72.0WTropical storm
Nov 13, 18:0020.6N 72.0WTropical storm
Nov 14, 00:0020.6N 71.9WTropical storm
Nov 14, 06:0020.7N 71.9WTropical storm
Nov 14, 12:0020.7N 71.8WTropical storm
Nov 14, 18:0020.8N 71.8WTropical storm
Nov 15, 00:0020.8N 71.7WTropical storm
Nov 15, 06:0020.9N 71.7WTropical storm
Nov 15, 12:0020.9N 71.6WTropical storm
Nov 15, 18:0021.0N 71.4WTropical storm
Nov 16, 00:0021.2N 71.1WTropical storm
Nov 16, 06:0021.4N 70.8WTropical storm
Nov 16, 12:0021.5N 70.5WTropical storm
Nov 16, 18:0021.6N 70.3WTropical storm
Nov 17, 00:0021.7N 70.1WTropical storm
Nov 17, 06:0021.9N 70.0WTropical storm
Nov 17, 12:0022.0N 69.8WTropical storm
Nov 17, 18:0022.3N 70.0WTropical storm
Nov 18, 00:0022.6N 70.2WTropical storm
Nov 18, 06:0022.9N 70.4WTropical storm
Nov 18, 12:0023.2N 70.5WTropical storm
Nov 18, 18:0023.4N 70.7WTropical storm
Nov 19, 00:0023.6N 71.0WTropical storm
Nov 19, 06:0023.8N 71.3WTropical storm
Nov 19, 12:0024.0N 71.5WTropical storm
Nov 19, 18:0024.1N 71.9WTropical storm
Nov 20, 00:0024.2N 72.2WTropical storm
Nov 20, 06:0024.2N 72.5WTropical storm
Nov 20, 12:0024.3N 72.8WTropical storm
Nov 20, 18:0024.4N 73.2WTropical storm
Nov 21, 00:0024.5N 73.6WTropical storm
Nov 21, 06:0024.6N 74.0WTropical storm
Nov 21, 12:0024.7N 74.5WTropical storm
Nov 21, 18:0024.7N 74.3WTropical storm
Nov 22, 00:0024.6N 74.1WTropical storm
Nov 22, 06:0024.6N 74.0WTropical storm
Nov 22, 12:0024.5N 73.8WTropical storm
Nov 22, 18:0024.4N 74.2WTropical storm
Nov 23, 00:0024.3N 74.7WTropical storm
Nov 23, 06:0024.2N 75.1WTropical storm
Nov 23, 12:0024.0N 75.5WTropical storm
Nov 23, 18:0024.0N 74.5WTropical storm
Nov 24, 00:0024.0N 73.5WTropical storm
Nov 24, 06:0024.0N 72.5WTropical storm
Nov 24, 12:0024.0N 71.5WTropical storm
Nov 24, 18:0024.5N 70.5WTropical storm
Nov 25, 00:0024.9N 69.5WTropical storm
Nov 25, 06:0025.3N 68.5WTropical storm
Nov 25, 12:0025.8N 67.5WTropical storm
Nov 25, 18:0025.9N 66.5WTropical storm
Nov 26, 00:0026.0N 65.6WTropical storm
Nov 26, 06:0026.1N 64.7WTropical storm
Nov 26, 12:0026.2N 63.8WTropical storm
Nov 26, 18:0026.3N 63.0WTropical storm
Nov 27, 00:0026.5N 62.2WTropical storm
Nov 27, 06:0026.6N 61.4WTropical storm
Nov 27, 12:0026.8N 60.6WTropical storm
Nov 27, 18:0027.0N 59.6WTropical storm
Nov 28, 00:0027.1N 58.6WTropical storm
Nov 28, 06:0027.3N 57.6WTropical storm
Nov 28, 12:0027.5N 56.6WExtratropical
Nov 28, 18:0027.7N 55.6WExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1853

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.