Hurricane Audrey (1957)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

June 24, 1957 to June 29, 1957

Peak strength

Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)

Lowest pressure

946 mb (27.94 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

8.1

Fastest the center moved

54 kt (62 mph)

Identifier

AL021957

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.

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 4,118 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 10.63 inches (270 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1957Cat 165 kt · 996 mb
• Tropical Storm BerthaNorth Atlantic · 1957Tropical Storm55 kt · 998 mb
• Hurricane CarrieNorth Atlantic · 1957Cat 4120 kt · 945 mb
• Tropical Storm DebbieNorth Atlantic · 1957Tropical Storm35 kt · 1003 mb
• Tropical Storm EstherNorth Atlantic · 1957Tropical Storm55 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane FriedaNorth Atlantic · 1957Cat 175 kt · 975 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1957Tropical Storm50 kt · 991 mb

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Audrey