The 1932 season

Unnamed hurricane (1932)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between September 9, 1932 and September 18, 1932, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1932 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 9, 1932 to September 18, 1932
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.3
Identifier
AL061932

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 9, 06:0019.2N 93.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0020.8N 93.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0021.4N 93.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0021.8N 93.1W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0022.1N 93.1W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0022.4N 93.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0022.9N 93.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0023.5N 93.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0024.2N 93.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0024.8N 92.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0025.1N 92.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0025.3N 92.7W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0025.4N 92.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0025.5N 92.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0025.6N 92.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0025.7N 92.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0025.8N 91.6W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0026.0N 91.0W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0026.3N 90.6W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0026.7N 90.2W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0027.2N 89.9W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0027.8N 89.2W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0028.5N 87.7W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0029.3N 85.7W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 04:00 landfall30.0N 83.9W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0030.2N 83.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0031.4N 80.8W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 15, 18:0032.7N 78.6W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 16, 00:0034.0N 77.0W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 16, 06:0035.4N 75.6W50 ktExtratropical
Sep 16, 12:0036.7N 74.2W55 ktExtratropical
Sep 16, 18:0038.0N 72.6W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 17, 00:0039.5N 71.0W65 ktExtratropical
Sep 17, 06:0041.5N 69.3W65 ktExtratropical
Sep 17, 12:0044.0N 67.7W55 ktExtratropical
Sep 17, 18:0047.5N 66.0W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 18, 00:0052.0N 66.5W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 18, 06:0056.0N 67.0W35 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1932

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.