The 2001 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2001)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the North Atlantic between September 19, 2001 and September 20, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 1005 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2001 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
September 19, 2001 to September 20, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1005 mb (29.68 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
AL092001

Deaths and damage

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

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Sep 20, 00:00Puerto Cabezas, North Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua, 19 km away13.9N 83.5W30 kt (35 mph)1006 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 19, 18:0013.4N 81.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 00:00 landfall13.9N 83.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 06:0014.5N 85.1W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 2001

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.