Hurricane Arlene (1987)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 8, 1987 to August 28, 1987

Peak strength

Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)

Lowest pressure

987 mb (29.15 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

11.9

Fastest the center moved

31 kt (36 mph)

Identifier

AL021987

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Depression30 kt
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• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm BretNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm CindyNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm DennisNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane EmilyNorth Atlantic · 1987Cat 3110 kt · 958 mb
• Hurricane FloydNorth Atlantic · 1987Cat 165 kt · 993 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1987Tropical Depression30 kt

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 Arlene