The 1933 season

Unnamed hurricane (1933)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between October 25, 1933 and November 7, 1933, with a lowest pressure of 982 mb, and made landfall.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
October 25, 1933 to November 7, 1933
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure
982 mb (29.00 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.2
Identifier
AL181933

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
Oct 25, 06:0013.5N 80.1W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 25, 12:0013.6N 79.7W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 25, 18:0013.6N 79.1W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 26, 00:0013.6N 78.5W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 26, 06:0013.7N 77.9W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 26, 12:0013.8N 77.5W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 26, 18:0013.9N 77.4W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 27, 00:0014.0N 77.3W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 27, 06:0014.1N 77.2W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 27, 12:0014.2N 77.2W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0014.6N 77.2W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0015.1N 77.3W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0015.6N 77.4W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0016.0N 77.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0016.4N 77.6W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0016.8N 77.7W70 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 06:0017.3N 77.7W75 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 12:0017.8N 77.7W80 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 18:0018.1N 78.1W80 kt982 mbHurricane
Oct 30, 00:0018.5N 78.0W70 ktHurricane
Oct 30, 06:0018.7N 77.7W65 ktHurricane
Oct 30, 12:0018.8N 77.5W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0019.0N 77.1W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0019.3N 76.8W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0019.6N 76.6W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0019.9N 76.4W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0020.3N 76.3W50 ktTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0020.7N 76.3W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0021.1N 76.4W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0021.5N 76.5W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 1, 18:0021.8N 76.5W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0022.0N 76.5W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 2, 06:0022.2N 76.5W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 2, 12:0022.4N 76.5W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 2, 18:0022.8N 76.7W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 3, 00:0023.2N 76.9W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 3, 06:0023.6N 77.0W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 3, 12:0024.1N 77.0W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 3, 18:0024.6N 76.9W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 4, 00:0025.0N 76.6W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 4, 06:0025.4N 76.2W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 4, 12:0025.8N 75.8W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 4, 18:0026.0N 75.1W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 00:0026.2N 74.3W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 06:0026.3N 73.5W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:0026.4N 72.6W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:0026.6N 71.6W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 00:0026.9N 70.5W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 06:0027.1N 69.3W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:0027.3N 68.0W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:0027.7N 66.6W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:0028.4N 65.1W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0029.3N 63.4W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:0030.4N 61.5W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:0032.1N 59.0W40 ktTropical storm

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.