Hurricane Ella (1962)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

October 14, 1962 to October 25, 1962

Peak strength

Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)

Lowest pressure

958 mb (28.29 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 73 km (45 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

13.6

Identifier

AL051962

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.

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1962Tropical Storm55 kt · 998 mb
• Hurricane AlmaNorth Atlantic · 1962Cat 175 kt · 984 mb
• Tropical Storm BeckyNorth Atlantic · 1962Tropical Storm50 kt
• Tropical Storm CeliaNorth Atlantic · 1962Tropical Storm60 kt · 995 mb
• Hurricane DaisyNorth Atlantic · 1962Cat 290 kt · 950 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1962Cat 180 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.