The 1955 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1955)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between September 23, 1955 and September 28, 1955.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1955 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
September 23, 1955 to September 28, 1955
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 906 km (563 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
AL111955

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 23, 12:0020.0N 45.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 23, 18:0020.6N 47.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 00:0021.1N 48.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 06:0021.6N 50.3W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 12:0022.0N 51.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 18:0022.8N 51.6W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 25, 00:0024.1N 52.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 25, 06:0025.6N 52.6W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 25, 12:0027.0N 53.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 25, 18:0028.3N 53.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 26, 00:0029.6N 53.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 26, 06:0030.8N 53.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 26, 12:0032.0N 53.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0033.1N 53.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0034.2N 51.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0035.4N 49.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0037.0N 47.0W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 27, 18:0040.5N 45.5W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 28, 00:0044.0N 41.0W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 28, 06:0047.0N 37.5W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 28, 12:0050.0N 34.0W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 28, 18:0053.5N 30.0W35 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1955

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.