The 2023 season

Tropical Storm Emily (2023)

Tropical Storm Emily peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between August 18, 2023 and August 25, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Emily, 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
August 18, 2023 to August 25, 2023
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1628 km (1012 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
AL072023

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.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 18, 12:0015.4N 32.9W30 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 18, 18:0015.5N 33.9W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 19, 00:0015.6N 34.8W30 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 19, 06:0015.8N 35.3W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 19, 12:0016.4N 35.7W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 19, 18:0017.2N 36.1W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 20, 00:0018.0N 36.7W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0018.8N 37.5W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0019.4N 38.3W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0020.0N 39.0W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0020.3N 39.8W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0020.6N 40.6W35 kt1003 mbLow
Aug 21, 12:0021.0N 41.4W35 kt1004 mbLow
Aug 21, 18:0021.4N 42.2W30 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 22, 00:0021.9N 43.1W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 22, 06:0022.5N 44.1W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 22, 12:0023.4N 45.1W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 22, 18:0024.4N 46.1W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 23, 00:0025.3N 47.2W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 23, 06:0026.1N 48.4W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 23, 12:0026.9N 49.2W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 23, 18:0027.8N 49.6W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 24, 00:0028.6N 49.6W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 24, 06:0029.3N 49.2W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 24, 12:0029.8N 48.9W35 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 24, 18:0030.5N 48.7W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 25, 00:0031.4N 48.6W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 25, 06:0032.4N 48.6W30 kt1010 mbLow

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.