Unnamed tropical storm (1936)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

December 2, 1936 to December 16, 1936

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)

Landfall

No; closest approach 754 km (469 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

2.4

Identifier

AL171936

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.

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1936Tropical Storm40 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1936Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1936Cat 170 kt · 987 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1936Tropical Storm40 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1936Cat 290 kt · 964 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1936Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1936Tropical Storm35 kt · 1009 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1936Cat 165 kt · 999 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1936Tropical Storm50 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1936Cat 295 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1936Cat 170 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1936Tropical Storm35 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1936Cat 3105 kt · 962 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1936Tropical Storm45 kt · 998 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1936Cat 290 kt · 983 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1936Tropical Storm35 kt

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.

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.