The 2023 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2023)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the North Atlantic between October 23, 2023 and October 24, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 1007 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
October 23, 2023 to October 24, 2023
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Lowest pressure
1007 mb (29.74 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
35 kt (40 mph)
Fastest the center moved
9 kt (10 mph)
Identifier
AL212023

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)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 24, 01:30Bluefields, South Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua, 52 km away12.4N 83.5W25 kt (29 mph)1007 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)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 23, 12:0011.4N 82.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 18:0011.5N 83.2W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 00:0012.2N 83.4W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 01:30 landfall12.4N 83.5W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 06:0013.0N 83.8W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 12:0013.5N 84.4W20 kt1007 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.