NHC AL061983 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Dean (1983)
September 26, 1983 – September 30, 1983
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Dean peaked at Tropical storm with 63 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 80 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Dean in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Dean from September 26, 1983 to September 30, 1983; its peak was 63 mph (tropical storm). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 80 US cities, in 4 states, most in Virginia (49) and Maryland (25). The strongest pass was 59 mph (tropical storm) 74 miles from Grandy, NC; the centre came closest to Exmore, VA, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 80
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 4
63 mph
when closest
Cities Dean passed near, strongest first
North Carolina (4)
- GrandyTropical storm · 74 mi
- CurrituckTropical storm · 66 mi
- MoyockTropical storm · 68 mi
- South MillsTropical storm · 74 mi
Virginia (49)
- Virginia BeachTropical storm · 48 mi
- ChesapeakeTropical storm · 57 mi
- PainterTropical storm · 6 mi
- MelfaTropical storm · 11 mi
- AccomacTropical storm · 16 mi
- Cape CharlesTropical storm · 19 mi
- ParksleyTropical storm · 21 mi
- BloxomTropical storm · 25 mi
- New ChurchTropical storm · 36 mi
- ChincoteagueTropical storm · 38 mi
- CallaoTropical storm · 54 mi
- ToanoTropical storm · 56 mi
- West PointTropical storm · 57 mi
- DunnsvilleTropical storm · 60 mi
- LanexaTropical storm · 61 mi
- WarsawTropical storm · 61 mi
- TappahannockTropical storm · 67 mi
- King WilliamTropical storm · 68 mi
- Providence ForgeTropical storm · 68 mi
- MontrossTropical storm · 68 mi
- New KentTropical storm · 69 mi
- Spring GroveTropical storm · 70 mi
- Charles CityTropical storm · 71 mi
- QuintonTropical storm · 74 mi
- WakefieldTropical storm · 75 mi
- ExmoreTropical storm · overhead
- OnancockTropical storm · 14 mi
- NorfolkTropical storm · 49 mi
- PortsmouthTropical storm · 55 mi
- HamptonTropical storm · 42 mi
- SeafordTropical storm · 34 mi
- PoquosonTropical storm · 36 mi
- YorktownTropical storm · 37 mi
- Newport NewsTropical storm · 42 mi
- CarrolltonTropical storm · 52 mi
- SuffolkTropical storm · 63 mi
- MathewsTropical storm · 16 mi
- HayesTropical storm · 29 mi
- Fort EustisTropical storm · 40 mi
- SmithfieldTropical storm · 52 mi
- WindsorTropical storm · 64 mi
- KilmarnockTropical storm · 2 mi
- White StoneTropical storm · 4 mi
- GloucesterTropical storm · 22 mi
- ZuniTropical storm · 65 mi
- LancasterTropical storm · 2 mi
- HeathsvilleTropical storm · 12 mi
- SaludaTropical storm · 14 mi
- WilliamsburgTropical storm · 35 mi
Maryland (25)
- Snow HillTropical storm · 52 mi
- Lexington ParkTropical storm · 62 mi
- Great MillsTropical storm · 65 mi
- BerlinTropical storm · 67 mi
- CaliforniaTropical storm · 68 mi
- LusbyTropical storm · 69 mi
- LeonardtownTropical storm · 70 mi
- HollywoodTropical storm · 71 mi
- BishopvilleTropical storm · 73 mi
- Ocean CityTropical storm · 73 mi
- CambridgeTropical storm · 74 mi
- Pocomoke CityTropical storm · 41 mi
- ParsonsburgTropical storm · 62 mi
- PittsvilleTropical storm · 64 mi
- CrisfieldTropical storm · 29 mi
- Princess AnneTropical storm · 46 mi
- EdenTropical storm · 53 mi
- FruitlandTropical storm · 56 mi
- SalisburyTropical storm · 59 mi
- DelmarTropical storm · 65 mi
- WestoverTropical storm · 35 mi
- HebronTropical storm · 59 mi
- Mardela SpringsTropical storm · 62 mi
- East New MarketTropical storm · 65 mi
- HurlockTropical storm · 70 mi
Other storms of the 1983 season
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.