1953 season

Unnamed Tropical Storm, AL08 1953

Sep 15, 6:00 PM UTC – Sep 21, 12:00 AM UTC (5.3 days)

Peak
Tropical Storm
Max sustained wind
50 mph (45 kt)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb
Landfalls
1

Track

  • Hurricane
  • Tropical Storm
  • Tropical Depression
  • Other
  • Large white-ringed dots: landfall

Landfalls

  • Sep 20, 5:00 PM UTC · 29.0°N 82.8°W · Tropical Storm · 40 mph
Every track point (23)
UTCStatusPositionWind ktmbNote
1953-09-15 18:00TD23.2°N 90.4°W30—
1953-09-16 00:00TS24.0°N 89.2°W35—
1953-09-16 06:00TS25.0°N 88.1°W40—
1953-09-16 12:00TS25.9°N 86.9°W45—
1953-09-16 18:00TS26.3°N 85.9°W45—
1953-09-17 00:00TS26.4°N 85.0°W451004
1953-09-17 06:00TS26.2°N 84.7°W40—
1953-09-17 12:00TS25.9°N 85.3°W40—
1953-09-17 18:00TS25.9°N 85.6°W40—
1953-09-18 00:00TS25.9°N 85.9°W40—
1953-09-18 06:00TS26.0°N 86.3°W35—
1953-09-18 12:00TS26.4°N 87.0°W35—
1953-09-18 18:00TD26.9°N 86.8°W30—
1953-09-19 00:00TD27.3°N 86.7°W30—
1953-09-19 06:00TD27.7°N 86.5°W30—
1953-09-19 12:00TD28.1°N 86.3°W30—
1953-09-19 18:00TD28.5°N 85.8°W30—
1953-09-20 00:00TD28.8°N 85.1°W30—
1953-09-20 06:00TS29.0°N 84.4°W35—
1953-09-20 12:00TS29.0°N 83.5°W35—
1953-09-20 17:00TS29.0°N 82.8°W35—Landfall
1953-09-20 18:00TS29.0°N 82.7°W35—
1953-09-21 00:00TD29.0°N 81.9°W25—

From the National Hurricane Center's best-track archive (HURDAT2), its post-season reanalysis; values can differ from the advisories issued at the time. Source: hurdat2-1851-2025-092326.txt, hurdat2-nepac-1949-2025-092926.txt.