Hurricane Barry (1983)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 23, 1983 to August 29, 1983

Peak strength

Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)

Lowest pressure

986 mb (29.12 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

3.1

Fastest the center moved

17 kt (20 mph)

Identifier

AL041983

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 229 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 3.01 inches (76 mm).

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

• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1983Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1983Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane AliciaNorth Atlantic · 1983Cat 3100 kt · 962 mb
• Hurricane ChantalNorth Atlantic · 1983Cat 165 kt · 994 mb
• Tropical Storm DeanNorth Atlantic · 1983Tropical Storm55 kt · 999 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: Hurricane Barry