The 1854 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1854)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between October 13, 1854 and October 27, 1854.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1854 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
October 13, 1854 to October 27, 1854
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 23 km (14 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1854287N18296

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
Oct 13, 12:0017.5N 64.3WTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0017.5N 64.4WTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0017.6N 64.5WTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0017.6N 64.6WTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0017.7N 64.6WTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0017.8N 64.7WTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0017.9N 64.8WTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0017.9N 64.9WTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0018.0N 64.9WTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0018.1N 65.0WTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0018.2N 65.0WTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0018.3N 65.1WTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0018.4N 65.2WTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0018.4N 65.3WTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0018.5N 65.4WTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0018.6N 65.5WTropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0018.7N 65.5WTropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0019.0N 65.6WTropical storm
Oct 18, 00:0019.3N 65.7WTropical storm
Oct 18, 06:0019.7N 65.7WTropical storm
Oct 18, 12:0020.0N 65.8WTropical storm
Oct 18, 18:0020.7N 65.8WTropical storm
Oct 19, 00:0021.3N 65.8WTropical storm
Oct 19, 06:0022.0N 65.8WTropical storm
Oct 19, 12:0022.7N 65.8WTropical storm
Oct 19, 18:0023.5N 65.8WTropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0024.2N 65.8WTropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0025.0N 65.8WTropical storm
Oct 20, 12:0025.7N 65.8WTropical storm
Oct 20, 18:0026.7N 65.7WTropical storm
Oct 21, 00:0027.6N 65.6WTropical storm
Oct 21, 06:0028.6N 65.6WTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0029.5N 65.5WTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0030.3N 65.4WTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0031.2N 65.3WTropical storm
Oct 22, 06:0032.0N 65.1WTropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0032.8N 64.9WTropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0033.5N 64.6WTropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0034.2N 64.3WTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0034.8N 64.0WTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0035.5N 63.7WTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0036.5N 62.4WTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0037.4N 61.1WTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0038.3N 59.8WTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0039.3N 58.5WTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0040.0N 56.7WTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0040.7N 55.0WTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0041.4N 53.3WTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0042.0N 51.5WTropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0042.8N 48.9WTropical storm
Oct 26, 00:0043.5N 46.3WTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0044.3N 45.7WTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0045.0N 45.0WTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0046.0N 43.3WExtratropical
Oct 27, 00:0047.0N 41.5WExtratropical
Oct 27, 06:0048.0N 39.8WExtratropical
Oct 27, 12:0049.0N 38.0WExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1854

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.