Tropical Storm Melissa (2013)

Tropical Storm Melissa peaked at 55 kt in the North Atlantic between November 17, 2013 and November 23, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Melissa, 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: November 17, 2013 to November 23, 2013
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure: 980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 664 km (413 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 1.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 270 nmi (500 km, 311 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi)
Overall size: 450 nmi (833 km, 518 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 65 kt (75 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 30 kt (35 mph)
Identifier: AL142013

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Nov 17, 00:00	23.9N 52.4W	35 kt	1006 mb	Extratropical
Nov 17, 06:00	24.3N 52.7W	35 kt	1005 mb	Extratropical
Nov 17, 12:00	25.0N 52.9W	35 kt	1005 mb	Extratropical
Nov 17, 18:00	26.0N 52.9W	40 kt	1002 mb	Extratropical
Nov 18, 00:00	27.1N 52.7W	45 kt	997 mb	Extratropical
Nov 18, 06:00	28.3N 52.7W	45 kt	992 mb	Extratropical
Nov 18, 12:00	29.1N 53.4W	50 kt	987 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 18, 18:00	29.7N 54.0W	50 kt	987 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 19, 00:00	30.2N 54.5W	50 kt	985 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 19, 06:00	30.8N 54.7W	55 kt	982 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 19, 12:00	31.6N 54.7W	55 kt	982 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 19, 18:00	32.5N 54.4W	50 kt	982 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 20, 00:00	33.3N 53.2W	45 kt	985 mb	Subtropical storm
Nov 20, 06:00	34.1N 51.4W	45 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Nov 20, 12:00	35.1N 49.0W	45 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Nov 20, 18:00	36.3N 46.4W	45 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Nov 21, 00:00	37.5N 43.5W	45 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Nov 21, 06:00	38.8N 40.0W	50 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Nov 21, 12:00	39.9N 36.6W	55 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Nov 21, 18:00	40.7N 33.3W	55 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Nov 22, 00:00	41.3N 30.2W	50 kt	984 mb	Low
Nov 22, 06:00	41.6N 27.5W	45 kt	988 mb	Low
Nov 22, 12:00	41.6N 24.7W	40 kt	992 mb	Extratropical
Nov 22, 18:00	41.3N 22.0W	40 kt	996 mb	Extratropical
Nov 23, 00:00	40.8N 19.5W	35 kt	1000 mb	Extratropical
Nov 23, 06:00	40.0N 17.1W	35 kt	1004 mb	Extratropical

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.