The 2003 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2003)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the North Atlantic between September 8, 2003 and September 10, 2003, with a lowest pressure of 1007 mb.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 8, 2003 to September 10, 2003
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1007 mb (29.74 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 540 km (336 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
AL142003

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 8, 06:0011.6N 21.7W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 8, 12:0011.4N 22.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 8, 18:0011.2N 22.6W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 00:0011.2N 23.0W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 06:0011.6N 23.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 12:0012.4N 24.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 18:0013.6N 24.9W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 00:0014.6N 25.0W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 06:0015.3N 25.1W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 12:0015.9N 25.2W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 2003

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.