The 1903 season

Unnamed hurricane (1903)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between July 21, 1903 and July 26, 1903.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1903 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
July 21, 1903 to July 26, 1903
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 146 km (91 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.9
Identifier
AL011903

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
Jul 21, 00:0020.0N 67.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0020.7N 68.9W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0021.5N 70.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0022.5N 71.2W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0023.7N 72.6W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0024.9N 73.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0026.5N 75.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0027.6N 75.5W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0028.8N 75.6W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0029.9N 75.4W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0031.0N 75.0W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0032.2N 73.6W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0033.4N 71.6W65 ktHurricane
Jul 24, 06:0034.3N 70.1W70 ktHurricane
Jul 24, 12:0035.3N 68.5W70 ktHurricane
Jul 24, 18:0036.4N 66.9W70 ktHurricane
Jul 25, 00:0037.3N 65.2W70 ktHurricane
Jul 25, 06:0037.9N 63.6W65 ktHurricane
Jul 25, 12:0038.5N 61.5W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0039.3N 58.0W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0039.9N 54.7W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0040.5N 51.4W50 ktExtratropical
Jul 26, 12:0041.0N 48.5W45 ktExtratropical
Jul 26, 18:0041.4N 45.7W40 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1903

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.