The 1937 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1937)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between August 24, 1937 and September 2, 1937, 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
August 24, 1937 to September 2, 1937
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.5
Identifier
AL031937

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
Aug 24, 12:0017.5N 61.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 24, 18:0018.2N 62.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 00:0018.9N 63.1W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0019.6N 64.1W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0020.3N 65.1W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0020.8N 66.2W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0021.4N 67.3W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0021.9N 68.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0022.4N 69.7W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0022.9N 70.8W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0023.5N 71.8W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0024.0N 72.8W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0024.4N 73.7W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0024.5N 74.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0024.5N 75.2W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0024.5N 75.9W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0024.5N 76.5W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0024.8N 77.1W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0025.5N 77.7W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0026.2N 78.2W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0026.8N 78.6W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0027.5N 78.9W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0028.1N 79.2W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0028.6N 79.7W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0029.0N 80.5W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 14:00 landfall29.1N 80.9W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0029.3N 81.7W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0029.6N 82.9W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0030.1N 84.1W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0030.5N 85.2W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0031.0N 86.1W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0031.4N 86.9W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 06:0031.9N 87.9W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 12:0032.3N 88.8W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:0032.9N 89.7W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 00:0033.6N 90.6W20 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 06:0034.2N 91.3W20 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 12:0034.8N 92.0W20 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 18:0035.5N 92.7W20 ktTropical depression

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.