Tropical Storm Gabrielle (2013)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 4, 2013 to September 13, 2013

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)

Lowest pressure

1003 mb (29.62 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

1.8

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)

Overall size

200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

60 kt (69 mph)

Fastest the center moved

20 kt (23 mph)

Identifier

AL072013

Radar at TJUA as it neared land, Sep 5, 06:00 UTC

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

0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

0

Property damage

$20,000

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

9 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

8 flash flood, 1 flood.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 1 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 1.53 inches (39 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.

Showers and thunderstorms associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle produced heavy rainfall which led to urban flooding on Saint Croix. Northside road was flooded near the vicinity of Estate Profit and Diageo. Also Eastbound lane was completed flooded and obstructed. Several trees were down near the Sweeney Police Station and on south shore road south of Junies Bar.

St. Croix, Virgin Islands · Flood · Sep 5, 12:00 UTC

• Tropical Storm AndreaNorth Atlantic · 2013 · 4 deathsTropical Storm55 kt · 992 mb
• Tropical Storm BarryNorth Atlantic · 2013 · 5 deathsTropical Storm40 kt · 1003 mb
• Tropical Storm ChantalNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Storm55 kt · 1003 mb
• Tropical Storm DorianNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Storm50 kt · 1002 mb
• Tropical Storm ErinNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Storm40 kt · 1006 mb
• Tropical Storm FernandNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Storm50 kt · 1001 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Depression30 kt · 1008 mb
• Hurricane HumbertoNorth Atlantic · 2013Cat 180 kt · 979 mb
• Hurricane IngridNorth Atlantic · 2013Cat 175 kt · 983 mb
• Tropical Storm JerryNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Storm45 kt · 1005 mb
• Tropical Storm KarenNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Storm55 kt · 998 mb
• Tropical Storm LorenzoNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Tropical Storm MelissaNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Storm55 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 2013Tropical Storm55 kt · 995 mb

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