The 1935 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1935)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between May 15, 1935 and May 19, 1935, with a lowest pressure of 1006 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1935 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 15, 1935 to May 19, 1935
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
1006 mb (29.71 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.8
Identifier
AL011935

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 15, 00:0017.0N 68.5W30 ktTropical depression
May 15, 06:0017.5N 69.0W30 ktTropical depression
May 15, 12:0018.2N 69.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
May 15, 18:0019.2N 69.9W30 ktTropical depression
May 16, 00:0020.3N 70.2W30 ktTropical depression
May 16, 06:0021.5N 70.4W30 ktTropical depression
May 16, 12:0022.5N 70.5W35 ktTropical storm
May 16, 18:0023.2N 70.2W35 ktTropical storm
May 17, 00:0023.8N 69.5W40 ktTropical storm
May 17, 06:0024.4N 68.5W40 ktTropical storm
May 17, 12:0025.0N 67.3W45 ktTropical storm
May 17, 18:0025.6N 65.8W50 ktTropical storm
May 18, 00:0026.3N 63.5W50 ktTropical storm
May 18, 06:0027.3N 61.0W45 ktTropical storm
May 18, 12:0028.5N 59.0W40 ktTropical storm
May 18, 18:0029.7N 57.0W35 ktTropical storm
May 19, 00:0031.0N 55.0W30 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1935

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.