The 1948 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1948)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between May 22, 1948 and May 29, 1948, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1948 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
May 22, 1948 to May 29, 1948
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Identifier
AL011948

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
May 22, 06:0017.1N 73.2W30 ktTropical depression
May 22, 12:0018.2N 73.1W30 ktTropical depression
May 22, 18:0019.3N 73.0W30 ktTropical depression
May 23, 00:0020.4N 72.9W30 ktTropical depression
May 23, 06:0021.4N 72.7W30 ktTropical depression
May 23, 12:0022.4N 72.3W30 ktTropical depression
May 23, 18:0023.4N 71.6W30 ktTropical depression
May 24, 00:0024.4N 70.6W30 ktTropical depression
May 24, 06:0025.4N 69.6W30 ktTropical depression
May 24, 12:0026.3N 69.0W35 ktTropical storm
May 24, 18:0027.2N 68.8W35 ktTropical storm
May 25, 00:0028.1N 68.7W40 ktTropical storm
May 25, 06:0028.9N 68.9W40 ktTropical storm
May 25, 12:0029.4N 69.0W45 ktTropical storm
May 25, 18:0029.7N 69.0W45 ktTropical storm
May 26, 00:0029.7N 68.9W45 ktTropical storm
May 26, 06:0029.5N 68.8W45 ktTropical storm
May 26, 12:0029.5N 68.6W45 ktTropical storm
May 26, 18:0029.7N 68.4W40 ktTropical storm
May 27, 00:0030.1N 68.2W40 ktTropical storm
May 27, 06:0030.6N 68.1W40 ktTropical storm
May 27, 12:0031.3N 68.0W40 ktTropical storm
May 27, 18:0032.0N 68.2W40 ktTropical storm
May 28, 00:0032.8N 68.5W35 ktTropical storm
May 28, 06:0033.7N 68.8W30 ktTropical depression
May 28, 12:0034.6N 69.0W30 ktTropical depression
May 28, 18:0035.4N 69.0W25 ktTropical depression
May 29, 00:0036.1N 69.0W25 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1948

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.