The 2013 season

Tropical Storm Lorenzo (2013)

Tropical Storm Lorenzo peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between October 21, 2013 and October 26, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Lorenzo, 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.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
October 21, 2013 to October 26, 2013
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1427 km (887 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
AL132013

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 21, 06:0027.6N 55.9W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 12:0028.2N 55.6W35 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0028.8N 55.0W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0029.1N 54.2W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 06:0029.3N 53.3W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0029.4N 52.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0029.5N 51.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0029.5N 50.6W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0029.5N 49.8W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0029.4N 49.3W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0029.3N 48.9W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0029.4N 48.4W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 06:0029.7N 48.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 12:0030.1N 47.7W25 kt1011 mbLow
Oct 24, 18:0030.5N 47.2W25 kt1012 mbLow
Oct 25, 00:0030.7N 46.7W25 kt1013 mbLow
Oct 25, 06:0031.0N 46.1W25 kt1013 mbLow
Oct 25, 12:0031.3N 45.7W25 kt1013 mbLow
Oct 25, 18:0031.6N 45.3W25 kt1013 mbLow
Oct 26, 00:0032.1N 44.7W20 kt1013 mbLow
Oct 26, 06:0032.8N 43.9W20 kt1013 mbLow

Other North Atlantic storms of 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.