The 1933 season

Unnamed hurricane (1933)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between October 26, 1933 and October 30, 1933, and made landfall.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
October 26, 1933 to October 30, 1933
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.9
Identifier
AL191933

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 26, 00:0027.8N 75.2W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 26, 06:0028.4N 74.8W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0029.0N 74.5W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0029.6N 74.3W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0030.2N 74.1W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0030.8N 73.9W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0031.5N 73.6W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0032.7N 72.9W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0034.1N 71.8W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0035.6N 70.5W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0037.1N 68.8W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0039.2N 66.6W65 ktExtratropical
Oct 29, 00:0041.2N 64.4W70 ktExtratropical
Oct 29, 06:0042.6N 63.1W70 ktExtratropical
Oct 29, 12:0044.0N 62.3W70 ktExtratropical
Oct 29, 18:0045.4N 61.6W55 ktExtratropical
Oct 30, 00:0046.8N 60.9W50 ktExtratropical
Oct 30, 06:0048.1N 60.1W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 30, 12:0049.3N 59.2W40 ktExtratropical
Oct 30, 18:0050.6N 58.5W40 ktExtratropical

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.