The 1983 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1983)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the North Atlantic between July 27, 1983 and August 2, 1983.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1983 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
July 27, 1983 to August 2, 1983
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 267 km (166 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
AL021983

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
Jul 27, 12:0012.0N 27.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 27, 18:0012.0N 28.5W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 28, 00:0012.0N 29.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 28, 06:0012.0N 31.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 28, 12:0012.1N 32.1W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 28, 18:0012.5N 33.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 29, 00:0012.9N 35.2W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 29, 06:0013.1N 36.9W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 29, 12:0013.6N 38.4W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 29, 18:0013.9N 39.9W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 30, 00:0014.1N 41.2W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 30, 06:0014.4N 42.6W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 30, 12:0014.7N 44.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 30, 18:0015.0N 45.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 31, 00:0015.3N 47.1W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 31, 06:0015.7N 48.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 31, 12:0016.0N 50.2W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 31, 18:0016.2N 52.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 1, 00:0016.7N 53.8W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 1, 06:0017.0N 55.4W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 1, 12:0017.1N 57.0W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 1, 18:0017.7N 58.7W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 2, 00:0018.0N 60.2W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 2, 06:0018.3N 61.8W20 ktTropical depression
Aug 2, 12:0018.8N 63.1W20 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1983

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.