The 1933 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1933)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between May 14, 1933 and May 19, 1933, with a lowest pressure of 1001 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1933 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
May 14, 1933 to May 19, 1933
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1001 mb (29.56 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.1
Identifier
AL011933

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
May 14, 12:0013.3N 82.0W35 ktTropical storm
May 14, 18:0014.3N 82.7W35 ktTropical storm
May 15, 00:0015.3N 83.4W35 ktTropical storm
May 15, 06:0016.5N 84.1W35 ktTropical storm
May 15, 12:0018.2N 84.9W35 ktTropical storm
May 15, 18:0020.2N 86.0W40 ktTropical storm
May 16, 00:0022.2N 87.3W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
May 16, 06:0022.7N 88.7W45 ktTropical storm
May 16, 12:0023.0N 90.0W45 ktTropical storm
May 16, 18:0023.0N 90.4W45 ktTropical storm
May 17, 00:0022.9N 90.6W45 ktTropical storm
May 17, 06:0022.7N 90.8W45 ktTropical storm
May 17, 12:0022.5N 91.0W45 ktTropical storm
May 17, 18:0022.0N 91.2W45 ktTropical storm
May 18, 00:0021.4N 91.3W40 ktTropical storm
May 18, 06:0020.7N 91.4W40 ktTropical storm
May 18, 12:0020.1N 91.5W35 ktTropical storm
May 18, 18:0019.5N 91.6W35 ktTropical storm
May 19, 00:0019.0N 91.7W35 ktTropical storm
May 19, 06:0018.5N 91.6W30 ktTropical depression
May 19, 12:0018.0N 91.5W25 ktTropical depression
May 19, 18:0017.5N 91.5W25 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1933

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.