Tropical Storm Claudette (1997)
Tropical Storm Claudette peaked at 40 kt in the North Atlantic between July 13, 1997 and July 16, 1997, with a lowest pressure of 1003 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Claudette, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1997 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- July 13, 1997 to July 16, 1997
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1003 mb (29.62 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 329 km (204 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 1.6
- Fastest the center moved
- 22 kt (25 mph)
- Identifier
- AL041997
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded
What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 1 states and marine areas, in the United States only. Property and crop damage as each office estimated it, which is not a national loss total.
In the United States
NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.
- Deaths
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 2 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 0 | 1 | 2 |
What was recorded
2 rip current.
What forecast offices wrote
From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.
MANY RESCUES WERE MADE AS A RESULT OF RIP CURRENTS CAUSED BY TROPICAL STORM CLAUDETTE. AT SURF CITY AN 8 YEAR OLD GIRL WAS HOSPITALIZED IN STABLE CONDITION.
Pender, North Carolina · Rip Current · Jul 14, 13:00 UTC
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 00:00 | 31.3N 73.6W | 25 kt | 1012 mb | Extratropical |
| Jul 13, 06:00 | 31.3N 73.3W | 25 kt | 1011 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 13, 12:00 | 31.6N 73.1W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 13, 18:00 | 31.9N 73.0W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 00:00 | 32.3N 73.0W | 40 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 06:00 | 32.7N 72.9W | 40 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 12:00 | 33.4N 72.7W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 18:00 | 34.0N 72.6W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 15, 00:00 | 34.9N 71.8W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 15, 06:00 | 35.6N 70.9W | 35 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 15, 12:00 | 36.2N 69.3W | 40 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 15, 18:00 | 36.6N 67.2W | 35 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 16, 00:00 | 36.7N 64.9W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 16, 06:00 | 36.6N 62.7W | 35 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 16, 12:00 | 36.3N 60.5W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 16, 18:00 | 35.9N 57.9W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Extratropical |
Other North Atlantic storms of 1997
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1997
- Tropical Storm AnaNorth Atlantic · 1997
- Hurricane BillNorth Atlantic · 1997
- Hurricane DannyNorth Atlantic · 1997
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1997
- Hurricane ErikaNorth Atlantic · 1997
- Tropical Storm FabianNorth Atlantic · 1997
- Tropical Storm GraceNorth Atlantic · 1997
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.