Tropical Storm Sean (2011)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

November 6, 2011 to November 12, 2011

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)

Lowest pressure

982 mb (29.00 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 460 km (286 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

3.4

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

400 nmi (741 km, 460 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)

Overall size

400 nmi (741 km, 460 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

65 kt (75 mph)

Fastest the center moved

33 kt (38 mph)

Identifier

AL192011

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.

Deaths

1 (1 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

1

Property damage

none recorded

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

1 rip current.

From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.

A 34 year old female tourist was caught in a rip current and pulled underneath the water during rough surf, causing her to drown. One other woman was also caught in a rip current while swimming, but she was pulled from the water and survived.

Martin, Florida · Rip Current · Nov 9, 19:45 UTC

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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.

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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live
• Best track as KMZ, National Hurricane Center
• Wikipedia article: Tropical Storm Sean