The 1873 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1873)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between August 10, 1873 and August 19, 1873.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1873 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 10, 1873 to August 19, 1873
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 744 km (462 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1873223N11332

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 10, 18:0011.0N 28.0WTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0011.3N 28.9WTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0011.6N 29.8WTropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0011.9N 30.7WTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0012.3N 31.6WTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0012.6N 32.5WTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0012.9N 33.4WTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0013.2N 34.3WTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0013.5N 35.2WTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0013.8N 36.2WTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0014.2N 37.0WTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0014.5N 37.9WTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0014.9N 38.8WTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0015.2N 39.6WTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0015.6N 40.8WTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0015.9N 41.9WTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0016.2N 42.8WTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0016.6N 43.7WTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0016.9N 44.5WTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0017.2N 45.7WTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0017.6N 46.8WTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0017.9N 47.7WTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0018.2N 48.6WTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0018.6N 49.4WTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0019.0N 50.5WTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0019.3N 51.6WTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0019.6N 52.5WTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0020.0N 53.4WTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0020.3N 54.2WTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0020.7N 55.3WTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0021.0N 56.4WTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0021.3N 57.4WTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0021.7N 58.5WTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0022.0N 59.6WTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1873

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.