The 1962 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1962)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 55 kt in the North Atlantic between June 29, 1962 and July 6, 1962, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1962 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
June 29, 1962 to July 6, 1962
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.8
Identifier
AL061962

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
Jun 29, 00:0032.2N 77.7W40 ktExtratropical
Jun 29, 06:0032.4N 77.0W40 ktExtratropical
Jun 29, 12:0032.7N 76.2W40 ktExtratropical
Jun 29, 18:0033.2N 75.6W45 ktExtratropical
Jun 30, 00:0033.8N 75.4W50 ktExtratropical
Jun 30, 06:0034.4N 75.7W50 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Jun 30, 12:0035.0N 76.1W55 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Jun 30, 18:0035.4N 76.0W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 21:00 landfall35.2N 75.8W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0035.0N 75.7W55 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 06:0034.8N 75.1W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0035.0N 74.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 1, 18:0035.2N 73.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0035.4N 71.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0035.6N 68.5W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0035.9N 66.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 2, 18:0036.2N 63.0W40 ktExtratropical
Jul 3, 00:0036.8N 61.0W45 ktExtratropical
Jul 3, 06:0038.0N 58.5W45 ktExtratropical
Jul 3, 12:0040.0N 54.5W45 ktExtratropical
Jul 3, 18:0043.7N 52.3W45 ktExtratropical
Jul 4, 00:0047.5N 55.0W40 ktExtratropical
Jul 4, 06:0048.5N 59.0W35 ktExtratropical
Jul 4, 12:0047.7N 62.5W35 ktExtratropical
Jul 4, 18:0047.0N 64.0W35 ktExtratropical
Jul 5, 00:0045.0N 65.0W30 ktExtratropical
Jul 5, 06:0043.2N 65.0W25 ktExtratropical
Jul 5, 12:0042.5N 64.4W25 ktExtratropical
Jul 5, 18:0043.0N 63.7W25 ktExtratropical
Jul 6, 00:0043.5N 63.0W25 ktExtratropical
Jul 6, 06:0044.2N 62.5W25 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1962

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.