Tropical Storm Fernand (2013)
Tropical Storm Fernand peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between August 25, 2013 and August 26, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 1001 mb, and made landfall.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Fernand, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2013 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
- August 25, 2013 to August 26, 2013
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1001 mb (29.56 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.7
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
- Overall size
- 100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 13 kt (15 mph)
- Identifier
- AL062013
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.
Landfall
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 04:45 | José Cardel, Veracruz, Mexico, 16 km away | 19.5N 96.3W | 50 kt (58 mph) | 1001 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.
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
- 4 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf of Mexico | 0 | 0 | 4 |
What was recorded
4 waterspout.
Tornadoes and waterspouts
4 waterspouts recorded in the United States.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 12:00 | 18.7N 94.2W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 25, 18:00 | 18.9N 95.1W | 45 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 00:00 | 19.2N 95.9W | 50 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 04:45 landfall | 19.5N 96.3W | 50 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 06:00 | 19.7N 96.6W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 12:00 | 20.1N 97.3W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 26, 18:00 | 20.5N 98.2W | 25 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2013
- Tropical Storm AndreaNorth Atlantic · 2013 · 4 deaths
- Tropical Storm BarryNorth Atlantic · 2013 · 5 deaths
- Tropical Storm ChantalNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Tropical Storm DorianNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Tropical Storm ErinNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Tropical Storm GabrielleNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Hurricane HumbertoNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Hurricane IngridNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Tropical Storm JerryNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Tropical Storm KarenNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Tropical Storm LorenzoNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Tropical Storm MelissaNorth Atlantic · 2013
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 2013
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.