The 1993 season

Tropical Storm Dennis (1993)

Tropical Storm Dennis peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between August 23, 1993 and August 28, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Dennis, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1993 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
August 23, 1993 to August 28, 1993
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1439 km (894 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
AL061993

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
Aug 23, 12:0013.6N 30.8W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 23, 18:0013.9N 31.3W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 00:0014.5N 32.3W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 06:0015.0N 33.2W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 12:0015.4N 34.0W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0015.8N 34.9W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0016.4N 35.8W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0016.9N 36.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0017.4N 37.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0018.0N 38.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0018.7N 39.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0019.4N 40.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0020.0N 41.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0020.6N 42.1W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0021.3N 42.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0022.1N 42.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0022.5N 43.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 18:0022.8N 43.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 00:0022.9N 43.6W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 06:0022.6N 44.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 12:0022.2N 44.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1993

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.