Tropical Storm Cindy (1963)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 16, 1963 to September 20, 1963

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)

Lowest pressure

996 mb (29.41 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

1.9

Fastest the center moved

10 kt (12 mph)

Identifier

AL041963

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 763 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 23.50 inches (597 mm).

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

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1963Tropical Storm50 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane ArleneNorth Atlantic · 1963Cat 3100 kt · 969 mb
• Hurricane BeulahNorth Atlantic · 1963Cat 3105 kt · 958 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1963Cat 170 kt · 990 mb
• Hurricane DebraNorth Atlantic · 1963Cat 165 kt · 999 mb
• Hurricane EdithNorth Atlantic · 1963Cat 285 kt · 990 mb
• Hurricane FloraNorth Atlantic · 1963Cat 4130 kt · 933 mb
• Hurricane GinnyNorth Atlantic · 1963Cat 295 kt · 948 mb
• Tropical Storm HelenaNorth Atlantic · 1963Tropical Storm45 kt · 1002 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: Tropical Storm Cindy