The 1921 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1921)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between November 19, 1921 and November 25, 1921, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
November 19, 1921 to November 25, 1921
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Identifier
AL071921

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
Nov 19, 00:0020.9N 65.0W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 19, 06:0021.2N 66.0W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 19, 12:0021.5N 67.0W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 19, 18:0021.8N 68.0W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 20, 00:0022.1N 69.0W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 20, 06:0022.3N 70.0W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 12:0022.5N 71.0W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 18:0022.7N 72.0W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 00:0022.8N 72.9W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 06:0022.9N 73.7W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 12:0023.0N 74.5W50 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 18:0022.9N 75.2W50 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 00:0022.8N 75.8W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 06:0022.7N 76.5W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 12:0022.5N 77.5W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 18:0022.3N 78.8W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 00:0022.2N 80.3W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 06:0022.1N 81.5W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 12:0022.0N 82.5W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 23, 18:0022.0N 83.4W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 24, 00:0022.1N 84.3W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 24, 06:0022.3N 85.2W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 24, 12:0022.5N 86.0W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 24, 18:0022.7N 86.4W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 25, 00:0022.9N 86.5W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 25, 06:0023.2N 86.5W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 25, 12:0023.5N 86.5W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 25, 18:0024.0N 86.5W25 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1921

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.