The 1857 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1857)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between August 16, 1857 and August 23, 1857, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1857 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
August 16, 1857 to August 23, 1857
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1857229N16276

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
Aug 16, 12:0015.8N 84.0WTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0016.2N 84.3WTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0016.5N 84.6WTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0016.9N 84.9WTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0017.3N 85.2WTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0017.7N 85.4WTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0018.0N 85.5WTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0018.4N 85.6WTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0018.8N 85.7WTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0019.2N 85.8WTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0019.5N 85.9WTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0019.8N 86.0WTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0020.2N 86.1WTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0020.6N 86.2WTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0021.0N 86.3WTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0021.4N 86.4WTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0021.7N 86.5WTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0022.5N 86.2WTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0023.2N 85.8WTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0024.0N 85.4WTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0024.8N 85.0WTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0024.9N 84.5WTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0025.1N 84.0WTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0025.3N 83.5WTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0025.4N 83.0WTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0025.8N 82.0WTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0026.1N 81.0WTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0026.5N 80.0WTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0026.8N 79.0WExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1857

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.