The 1903 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1903)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between October 21, 1903 and October 27, 1903, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
October 21, 1903 to October 27, 1903
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Identifier
AL091903

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 21, 06:0021.2N 72.0W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 21, 12:0021.5N 72.5W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 21, 18:0021.9N 72.9W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 00:0022.5N 73.3W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 06:0023.2N 73.6W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 12:0024.0N 74.0W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 18:0024.8N 74.2W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 23, 00:0025.6N 74.3W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 23, 06:0026.3N 74.3W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 23, 12:0027.0N 74.3W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0027.9N 74.5W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0029.0N 74.8W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0030.1N 75.1W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0031.2N 75.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0032.4N 74.5W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 25, 00:0033.6N 73.1W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 25, 06:0034.5N 71.5W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 25, 12:0035.8N 69.5W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 25, 18:0038.0N 66.9W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 26, 00:0040.5N 63.7W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 26, 06:0042.8N 60.4W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 26, 12:0045.0N 57.5W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 26, 18:0047.3N 55.4W40 ktExtratropical
Oct 27, 00:0049.1N 53.7W40 ktExtratropical
Oct 27, 06:0051.1N 52.4W40 ktExtratropical
Oct 27, 12:0053.0N 51.0W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 27, 18:0055.2N 49.5W35 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.