The 1863 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1863)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between August 5, 1863 and August 9, 1863.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1863 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 5, 1863 to August 9, 1863
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 50 km (31 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1863217N35284

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 5, 06:0034.5N 76.0WExtratropical
Aug 5, 12:0035.0N 75.0WExtratropical
Aug 5, 18:0035.3N 73.5WExtratropical
Aug 6, 00:0035.5N 72.0WExtratropical
Aug 6, 06:0035.8N 70.0WSubtropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0036.0N 68.0WSubtropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0036.2N 65.8WSubtropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0036.3N 63.7WSubtropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0036.4N 61.6WTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0036.5N 59.5WTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0037.3N 57.7WTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0038.0N 56.0WTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0038.8N 54.2WTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0039.5N 52.5WTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0040.7N 50.8WTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0041.8N 49.0WTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0042.9N 47.3WTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0044.0N 45.5WTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0047.5N 42.5WTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1863

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.