Hurricane Emily (1993)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 22, 1993 to September 6, 1993

Peak strength

Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)

Lowest pressure

960 mb (28.35 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 58 km (36 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

22.1

Fastest the center moved

19 kt (22 mph)

Identifier

AL051993

Radar at KMHX as it neared land, Aug 31, 18:00 UTC

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.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 29 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 7.51 inches (191 mm).

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

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1993Tropical Storm35 kt · 999 mb
• Tropical Storm ArleneNorth Atlantic · 1993Tropical Storm35 kt · 1000 mb
• Tropical Storm BretNorth Atlantic · 1993Tropical Storm50 kt · 1002 mb
• Tropical Storm CindyNorth Atlantic · 1993 · $19 millionTropical Storm40 kt · 1007 mb
• Tropical Storm DennisNorth Atlantic · 1993Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane FloydNorth Atlantic · 1993Cat 170 kt · 966 mb
• Hurricane GertNorth Atlantic · 1993Cat 285 kt · 970 mb
• Hurricane HarveyNorth Atlantic · 1993Cat 165 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1993Tropical Depression30 kt · 1008 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 Emily