The 1923 season

Unnamed hurricane (1923)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 24, 1923 and October 4, 1923, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1923 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
September 24, 1923 to October 4, 1923
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
17.7
Identifier
AL051923

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
Sep 24, 18:0021.0N 73.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0021.5N 73.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0022.0N 73.6W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0022.5N 74.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0023.1N 74.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0023.7N 75.1W65 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 06:0024.3N 75.7W65 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 12:0025.0N 76.1W65 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 18:0025.8N 76.3W65 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 00:0026.7N 76.4W65 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 06:0027.5N 76.4W65 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 12:0028.3N 76.3W70 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 18:0028.9N 76.1W75 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 00:0029.4N 75.8W80 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 06:0029.8N 75.3W85 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 12:0030.2N 74.8W90 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 18:0030.6N 74.3W95 ktHurricane
Sep 29, 00:0030.9N 73.8W100 ktHurricane
Sep 29, 06:0031.2N 73.3W105 ktHurricane
Sep 29, 12:0031.5N 72.7W105 ktHurricane
Sep 29, 18:0031.8N 72.0W105 ktHurricane
Sep 30, 00:0032.1N 71.1W105 ktHurricane
Sep 30, 06:0032.4N 70.0W100 ktHurricane
Sep 30, 12:0033.0N 68.7W95 ktHurricane
Sep 30, 18:0034.2N 67.0W95 ktHurricane
Oct 1, 00:0036.0N 64.5W90 ktHurricane
Oct 1, 06:0038.5N 61.5W85 ktHurricane
Oct 1, 12:0041.7N 59.0W80 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 18:0044.2N 58.0W75 ktExtratropical
Oct 2, 00:0045.7N 57.6W70 ktExtratropical
Oct 2, 06:0046.4N 57.5W65 ktExtratropical
Oct 2, 12:0047.0N 57.5W60 ktExtratropical
Oct 2, 18:0048.0N 57.0W55 ktExtratropical
Oct 3, 00:0050.0N 55.3W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 3, 06:0052.5N 52.3W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 3, 12:0055.0N 49.0W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 3, 18:0057.0N 46.0W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 4, 00:0058.5N 43.0W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 4, 06:0059.5N 40.0W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 4, 12:0060.0N 37.0W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 4, 18:0060.3N 34.0W45 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1923

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.