The 1937 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1937)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between July 29, 1937 and August 2, 1937, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1937 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
July 29, 1937 to August 2, 1937
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Identifier
AL011937

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
Jul 29, 00:0026.5N 85.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 29, 06:0027.0N 84.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 29, 12:0027.4N 83.9W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0027.8N 83.3W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 22:00 landfall28.1N 82.8W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0028.3N 82.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0029.2N 81.3W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0030.1N 80.2W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0031.1N 79.2W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0032.1N 78.3W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0033.1N 77.4W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0034.2N 76.5W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0036.0N 74.4W60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0037.9N 71.6W60 ktExtratropical
Aug 1, 06:0039.6N 69.2W55 ktExtratropical
Aug 1, 12:0041.1N 66.8W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 1, 18:0042.5N 64.8W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 2, 00:0043.8N 64.3W45 ktExtratropical
Aug 2, 06:0045.2N 64.5W40 ktExtratropical
Aug 2, 12:0046.5N 65.2W35 ktExtratropical
Aug 2, 18:0047.6N 65.9W30 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1937

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.