The 1995 season

Tropical Storm Sebastien (1995)

Tropical Storm Sebastien peaked at 55 kt in the North Atlantic between October 20, 1995 and October 25, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 1001 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Sebastien, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1995 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
October 20, 1995 to October 25, 1995
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
1001 mb (29.56 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 140 km (87 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
AL201995

Radar at TJUA as it neared land, Oct 25, 00:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 20, 12:0013.8N 53.8W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 20, 18:0014.8N 54.5W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 00:0016.0N 55.1W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 06:0017.6N 55.9W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0019.0N 56.3W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0020.1N 56.6W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0021.2N 56.7W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 06:0021.8N 56.8W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0022.0N 57.7W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0021.5N 58.5W55 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0020.9N 59.5W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0020.1N 60.4W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0019.4N 61.0W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0019.0N 61.7W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0018.6N 62.3W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 06:0018.3N 63.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 12:0018.0N 63.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 18:0017.7N 64.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 00:0017.5N 64.5W20 kt1008 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1995

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.