The 1957 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1957)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between October 23, 1957 and October 27, 1957, with a lowest pressure of 991 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1957 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
October 23, 1957 to October 27, 1957
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
991 mb (29.26 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 741 km (460 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.4
Identifier
AL081957

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
Oct 23, 00:0023.3N 58.0W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 23, 06:0024.3N 59.3W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0025.0N 60.6W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0025.2N 61.9W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0024.9N 63.2W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0024.9N 64.2W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0025.4N 65.0W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0026.2N 65.6W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0027.2N 65.8W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0028.2N 65.4W50 kt991 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0029.2N 64.8W50 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0030.5N 63.8W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 00:0032.3N 62.8W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0034.7N 61.5W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0036.2N 59.5W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0037.0N 57.0W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0037.5N 54.0W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0037.9N 50.5W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0038.3N 47.5W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 27, 18:0038.8N 44.6W25 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1957

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.