The 1987 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1987)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the North Atlantic between May 24, 1987 and June 1, 1987.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1987 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
May 24, 1987 to June 1, 1987
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 49 km (30 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
AL011987

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
May 24, 12:0021.2N 68.5W25 ktTropical depression
May 24, 18:0021.5N 69.0W25 ktTropical depression
May 25, 00:0022.0N 69.5W25 ktTropical depression
May 25, 06:0022.6N 69.5W25 ktTropical depression
May 25, 12:0023.3N 69.3W30 ktTropical depression
May 25, 18:0024.0N 69.0W30 ktTropical depression
May 26, 00:0024.6N 68.8W30 ktTropical depression
May 26, 06:0025.3N 69.0W30 ktTropical depression
May 26, 12:0026.0N 69.4W30 ktTropical depression
May 26, 18:0025.7N 69.4W30 ktTropical depression
May 27, 00:0026.5N 68.8W30 ktTropical depression
May 27, 06:0026.8N 69.6W30 ktTropical depression
May 27, 12:0026.1N 69.9W30 ktTropical depression
May 27, 18:0025.8N 69.6W30 ktTropical depression
May 28, 00:0025.4N 69.7W30 ktTropical depression
May 28, 06:0025.3N 70.1W30 ktTropical depression
May 28, 12:0025.3N 70.8W30 ktTropical depression
May 28, 18:0025.3N 71.7W30 ktTropical depression
May 29, 00:0025.4N 72.5W30 ktTropical depression
May 29, 06:0025.5N 73.3W30 ktTropical depression
May 29, 12:0025.6N 74.1W30 ktTropical depression
May 29, 18:0025.7N 75.0W30 ktTropical depression
May 30, 00:0025.8N 75.7W30 ktTropical depression
May 30, 06:0025.8N 76.5W30 ktTropical depression
May 30, 12:0025.9N 77.3W30 ktTropical depression
May 30, 18:0025.8N 78.5W30 ktTropical depression
May 31, 00:0025.3N 79.4W30 ktTropical depression
May 31, 06:0024.7N 80.2W30 ktTropical depression
May 31, 12:0024.6N 80.6W25 ktTropical depression
May 31, 18:0024.5N 81.0W20 ktTropical depression
Jun 1, 00:0024.4N 81.7W15 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1987

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.