Tropical Storm Nicole (2004)
Tropical Storm Nicole peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between October 10, 2004 and October 11, 2004, with a lowest pressure of 986 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Nicole, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2004 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
- October 10, 2004 to October 11, 2004
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 986 mb (29.12 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 685 km (426 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.0
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 300 nmi (556 km, 345 mi) from the center at its widest
- Peak gust in the best track
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 28 kt (32 mph)
- Identifier
- AL152004
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
- 0
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 3 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 0 | 0 | 3 |
What was recorded
3 high wind.
Wind reports
The strongest winds National Weather Service offices recorded with this storm. An estimated figure is a forecaster’s judgment from the damage, not an instrument reading.
| Wind | How | Where | State | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 kt (64 mph) | Measured | Coastal Hancock | Maine | Oct 12, 05:30 |
| 56 kt (64 mph) | Measured | Coastal Washington | Maine | Oct 12, 05:30 |
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 00:00 | 30.0N 65.2W | 40 kt | 1000 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 10, 06:00 | 31.0N 66.3W | 40 kt | 1000 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 10, 12:00 | 31.5N 66.5W | 40 kt | 1000 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 10, 18:00 | 32.1N 66.5W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 11, 00:00 | 32.9N 65.5W | 40 kt | 994 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 11, 06:00 | 34.3N 63.9W | 40 kt | 992 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 11, 12:00 | 36.0N 61.8W | 45 kt | 986 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Oct 11, 18:00 | 38.5N 60.5W | 45 kt | 986 mb | Subtropical storm |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2004
- Hurricane AlexNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Tropical Storm BonnieNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Hurricane CharleyNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Hurricane DanielleNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Tropical Storm EarlNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Hurricane FrancesNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Hurricane GastonNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Tropical Storm HermineNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Hurricane IvanNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Hurricane JeanneNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Hurricane KarlNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Hurricane LisaNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Tropical Storm MatthewNorth Atlantic · 2004
- Tropical Storm OttoNorth Atlantic · 2004
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.