The 1943 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1943)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between August 13, 1943 and August 19, 1943.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1943 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 13, 1943 to August 19, 1943
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 69 km (43 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.9
Identifier
AL021943

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 13, 12:0017.1N 60.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0017.5N 61.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0018.0N 62.5W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0018.5N 64.5W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0019.2N 65.6W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0020.0N 66.9W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0020.9N 68.3W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0021.9N 69.7W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0023.0N 71.0W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0024.0N 71.7W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0024.8N 72.0W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0025.5N 72.1W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0026.2N 72.2W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0027.0N 72.3W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0027.9N 72.8W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0028.8N 73.6W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0029.6N 74.4W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0030.3N 75.0W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0031.0N 75.4W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0031.8N 75.4W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0032.7N 74.8W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0033.8N 73.7W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0034.8N 72.5W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0035.8N 71.3W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0036.7N 70.0W35 ktExtratropical
Aug 19, 18:0038.3N 67.9W30 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1943

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.