NHC AL021953 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Tropical Storm of 1953
July 11, 1953 – July 16, 1953
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Unnamed 1953 storm peaked at Tropical storm with 52 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 45 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1953 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1953 (AL021953) from July 11, 1953 to July 16, 1953; its peak was 52 mph (tropical storm). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 45 US cities, in 2 states, most in Florida (38). The strongest pass was 52 mph (tropical storm) 54 miles from Nantucket, MA; the centre came closest to Vero Beach, FL, 21 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 45
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 2
52 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1953 storm passed near, strongest first
Massachusetts (7)
Florida (38)
- Vero BeachTropical storm · 21 mi
- Fort PierceTropical storm · 23 mi
- GrantTropical storm · 31 mi
- FellsmereTropical storm · 31 mi
- Jensen BeachTropical storm · 32 mi
- Port St LucieTropical storm · 33 mi
- Melbourne BeachTropical storm · 34 mi
- MalabarTropical storm · 34 mi
- StuartTropical storm · 38 mi
- Palm BayTropical storm · 39 mi
- Palm CityTropical storm · 39 mi
- IndialanticTropical storm · 40 mi
- Hobe SoundTropical storm · 43 mi
- Indian Harbour BeachTropical storm · 45 mi
- MelbourneTropical storm · 46 mi
- TequestaTropical storm · 51 mi
- IndiantownTropical storm · 51 mi
- Cocoa BeachTropical storm · 53 mi
- JupiterTropical storm · 53 mi
- OkeechobeeTropical storm · 55 mi
- RockledgeTropical storm · 57 mi
- Cape CanaveralTropical storm · 57 mi
- Palm Beach GardensTropical storm · 59 mi
- Merritt IslandTropical storm · 59 mi
- North Palm BeachTropical storm · 59 mi
- Riviera BeachTropical storm · 63 mi
- CocoaTropical storm · 65 mi
- LoxahatcheeTropical storm · 67 mi
- Royal Palm BeachTropical storm · 68 mi
- Palm BeachTropical storm · 68 mi
- West Palm BeachTropical storm · 69 mi
- PahokeeTropical storm · 70 mi
- WellingtonTropical storm · 73 mi
- GreenacresTropical storm · 74 mi
- Palm SpringsTropical storm · 74 mi
- SebastianTropical storm · 23 mi
- Barefoot BayTropical storm · 28 mi
- HarmonyTropical storm · 63 mi
Other storms of the 1953 season
- AliceTropical storm · 66 cities
- BarbaraCategory 1 · 118 cities
- CarolCategory 5 · 3 cities
- DollyCategory 1 · 86 cities
- Unnamed (AL081953)Tropical storm · 108 cities
- FlorenceCategory 3 · 253 cities
- Unnamed (AL111953)Tropical storm · 60 cities
- HazelCategory 1 · 108 cities
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.