NHC AL031933 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Tropical Storm of 1933
July 14, 1933 – July 27, 1933
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Unnamed 1933 storm peaked at Tropical storm with 52 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 35 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1933 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1933 (AL031933) from July 14, 1933 to July 27, 1933; its peak was 52 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on July 23 at 46 mph (tropical storm), 16 miles from Palacios, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 35 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 46 mph (tropical storm) 43 miles from Ganado, TX; the centre came closest to Bay City, TX, 10 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 35
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
52 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1933 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (35)
- GanadoTropical storm · 43 mi
- El CampoTropical storm · 45 mi
- SeadriftTropical storm · 45 mi
- BolingTropical storm · 45 mi
- EdnaTropical storm · 47 mi
- WhartonTropical storm · 49 mi
- NeedvilleTropical storm · 56 mi
- BeasleyTropical storm · 61 mi
- East BernardTropical storm · 64 mi
- RosharonTropical storm · 66 mi
- RosenbergTropical storm · 66 mi
- RichmondTropical storm · 70 mi
- Eagle LakeTropical storm · 70 mi
- WallisTropical storm · 71 mi
- FresnoTropical storm · 72 mi
- AlvinTropical storm · 72 mi
- Sugar LandTropical storm · 72 mi
- ManvelTropical storm · 72 mi
- Missouri CityTropical storm · 73 mi
- RockportTropical storm · 74 mi
- HallettsvilleTropical storm · 74 mi
- PalaciosTropical storm · 11 mi
- Port LavacaTropical storm · 37 mi
- FreeportTropical storm · 45 mi
- Bay CityTropical storm · 10 mi
- BrazoriaTropical storm · 31 mi
- Lake JacksonTropical storm · 40 mi
- CluteTropical storm · 42 mi
- SweenyTropical storm · 24 mi
- Van VleckTropical storm · 14 mi
- West ColumbiaTropical storm · 29 mi
- AngletonTropical storm · 42 mi
- InezTropical storm · 43 mi
- DanburyTropical storm · 49 mi
- VictoriaTropical storm · 55 mi
Other storms of the 1933 season
- Unnamed (AL051933)Category 1 · 233 cities
- Unnamed (AL061933)Category 4 · 1,018 cities
- Unnamed (AL081933)Category 5 · 32 cities
- Unnamed (AL111933)Category 4 · 431 cities
- Unnamed (AL121933)Category 4 · 14 cities
- Unnamed (AL171933)Category 3 · 15 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.