Hurricanes

The 2003 season

105 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Radar

Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

Open the live radar with storms, cones and warnings

Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Deaths and damage

1 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 2 people in all, and 1 as having done damage, $12,000 of it.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

21 storms, 16 at tropical storm strength, 7 hurricanes, 3 major; accumulated cyclone energy 174.8.

Eastern Pacific

18 storms, 17 at tropical storm strength, 7 hurricanes, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 59.0.

Western Pacific

27 storms, 22 at tropical storm strength, 17 typhoons, 11 major; accumulated cyclone energy 335.4.

North Indian

6 storms, 3 at tropical storm strength, 1 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 12.9.

South Indian

20 storms, 19 at tropical storm strength, 11 at hurricane force, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 159.1.

South Pacific

13 storms, 12 at tropical storm strength, 7 at hurricane force, 6 major; accumulated cyclone energy 111.4.

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.