The 1928 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1928)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between September 8, 1928 and September 13, 1928, with a lowest pressure of 984 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1928 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 8, 1928 to September 13, 1928
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
984 mb (29.06 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1075 km (668 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.0
Identifier
AL051928

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 8, 12:0018.0N 48.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0019.0N 48.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0020.1N 49.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0021.4N 50.1W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0023.0N 51.0W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0024.9N 52.5W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0027.0N 54.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0029.3N 54.3W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0031.5N 54.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0033.5N 53.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0035.4N 50.3W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0037.2N 48.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 11, 12:0039.0N 45.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 11, 18:0040.6N 42.5W60 kt984 mbExtratropical
Sep 12, 00:0042.0N 40.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 12, 06:0043.2N 37.5W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 12, 12:0044.5N 35.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 12, 18:0046.0N 32.5W55 ktExtratropical
Sep 13, 00:0047.7N 30.5W50 ktExtratropical
Sep 13, 06:0049.5N 29.0W45 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1928

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.