The 1943 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1943)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 55 kt in the North Atlantic between September 28, 1943 and October 2, 1943, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb, and made landfall.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 28, 1943 to October 2, 1943
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.0
Identifier
AL071943

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
Sep 28, 06:0029.0N 65.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0030.0N 66.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0031.5N 66.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0032.7N 67.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0033.8N 67.5W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0034.6N 68.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0035.2N 69.2W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0035.7N 70.4W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0036.1N 71.7W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0036.5N 73.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0037.0N 74.5W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:00 landfall37.7N 75.7W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0038.5N 76.6W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 12:0039.5N 76.8W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 18:0040.5N 77.0W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 2, 00:0041.5N 77.2W25 ktTropical depression

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.