Unnamed tropical storm (1981)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between November 12, 1981 and November 17, 1981, with a lowest pressure of 978 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1981 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: November 12, 1981 to November 17, 1981
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure: 978 mb (28.88 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 67 km (42 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 0.0
Identifier: AL221981

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Nov 12, 12:00	31.0N 74.0W	45 kt	1004 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 12, 18:00	31.4N 73.1W	45 kt	1003 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 13, 00:00	31.8N 72.3W	50 kt	1001 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 13, 06:00	32.2N 71.6W	55 kt	999 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 13, 12:00	32.7N 71.0W	55 kt	997 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 13, 18:00	33.2N 70.6W	55 kt	995 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 14, 00:00	33.7N 70.6W	60 kt	993 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 14, 06:00	34.3N 70.8W	60 kt	991 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 14, 12:00	34.8N 71.1W	60 kt	989 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 14, 18:00	35.3N 71.4W	60 kt	986 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 15, 00:00	35.8N 71.8W	60 kt	984 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 15, 06:00	36.5N 71.9W	60 kt	981 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 15, 12:00	37.2N 71.8W	60 kt	979 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 15, 18:00	37.9N 71.4W	60 kt	978 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 16, 00:00	38.6N 70.9W	60 kt	978 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 16, 06:00	39.3N 70.2W	55 kt	979 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 16, 12:00	40.0N 69.5W	55 kt	981 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 16, 18:00	40.7N 68.5W	55 kt	983 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 17, 00:00	41.4N 67.1W	50 kt	985 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 17, 06:00	42.9N 65.8W	45 kt	990 mb	Subtropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1981

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.