Tropical Storm Bret (2023)

Tropical Storm Bret peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between June 19, 2023 and June 24, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Bret, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2023 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: June 19, 2023 to June 24, 2023
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure: 996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 4.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size: 180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 75 kt (86 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier: AL032023

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

National Hurricane Center

0 direct deathsnone recorded in the United States

The season table in NHC’s report archive, final report. Direct deaths are those caused by the storm’s own wind, water or surge, anywhere in the world.

Landfall

Time (UTC)	Where	Position	Wind	Pressure
Jun 23, 03:15	Kingstown, Saint George Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 16 km away	13.3N 61.2W	55 kt (63 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.

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Jun 19, 06:00	10.7N 37.3W	30 kt	1009 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 19, 12:00	10.9N 39.1W	30 kt	1009 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 19, 18:00	11.1N 40.9W	35 kt	1008 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 20, 00:00	11.3N 42.7W	35 kt	1008 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 20, 06:00	11.5N 44.5W	35 kt	1008 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 20, 12:00	11.7N 46.3W	35 kt	1008 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 20, 18:00	12.0N 48.0W	40 kt	1006 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 21, 00:00	12.4N 49.4W	45 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 21, 06:00	12.7N 50.7W	50 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 21, 12:00	13.0N 52.0W	50 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 21, 18:00	13.3N 53.3W	55 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 22, 00:00	13.4N 54.6W	55 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 22, 06:00	13.5N 55.9W	60 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 22, 12:00	13.5N 57.3W	60 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 22, 18:00	13.4N 58.8W	55 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 23, 00:00	13.3N 60.3W	55 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 23, 03:15 landfall	13.3N 61.2W	55 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 23, 06:00	13.3N 62.0W	50 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 23, 12:00	13.2N 63.8W	50 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 23, 18:00	13.1N 65.6W	45 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 24, 00:00	13.0N 67.4W	45 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 24, 06:00	13.0N 69.2W	40 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 24, 12:00	13.0N 70.9W	40 kt	1007 mb	Tropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 2023

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.