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NORTH ATLANTIC · SEASON MAP

1963 Atlantic hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 10 storms · 1 Jun 1963–30 Oct 1963

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1963 Atlantic hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 10 storms, colored by the wind category at each observation. Hover or focus a storm in the table to highlight its track.UNITED STATESCANADAMEXICOCUBABRAZILAFRICAEUROPECHINAJAPANINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanArabian SeaBay of BengalUnnamed: 1 Jun–4 Jun, peak 50 kt, Tropical stormArlene: 31 Jul–11 Aug, peak 100 kt, Category 3Beulah: 20 Aug–27 Aug, peak 105 kt, Category 3Unnamed: 9 Sep–14 Sep, peak 70 kt, Category 1Cindy: 16 Sep–20 Sep, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormDebra: 19 Sep–24 Sep, peak 65 kt, Category 1Edith: 23 Sep–29 Sep, peak 85 kt, Category 2Flora: 28 Sep–11 Oct, peak 130 kt, Category 4Ginny: 17 Oct–29 Oct, peak 95 kt, Category 2Helena: 25 Oct–30 Oct, peak 45 kt, Tropical storm

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Unnamed–50Tropical storm1000960
Arlene–100Cat 39695,310
Beulah–105Cat 39586,640
Unnamed–70Cat 19902,190
Cindy–55Tropical storm996460
Debra–65Cat 19991,620
Edith–85Cat 29901,690
Flora–130Cat 49336,020
Ginny–95Cat 29482,760
Helena–45Tropical storm1002900

10 storms with an IBTrACS 1963 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 1 Jun 1963, last 30 Oct 1963.

Tropical storms10

Tropical-stage US-agency wind of 34 kt or more

Hurricanes7

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)3

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormFlora

130 kt · 150 mph / 241 km/h

Lowest pressure933 hPa

Flora, 3 Oct 1963

Longest track record19.8 days

Beulah, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind0

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 1963 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season?

The archive records 7 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 10 tropical storms, with 3 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season?

Flora, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 130 kt (Category 4) on 3 Oct 1963, 18:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 933 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 1963?

None. No storm in the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale in the archive.

When did the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 1 Jun 1963 and the last on 30 Oct 1963, from 10 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season?

Arlene, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 8 Aug 1963, 12:00 UTC.

METHODOLOGY

Data sources and limitations

The map and totals are generated from NOAA’s IBTrACS v04r01 archive. A storm belongs to this page when the archive lists it in the North Atlantic basin for the 1963 season, so a December storm whose track ends in January stays with its season. Storms that cross between basins appear on the page of their archive basin only.

Counts use US-agency one-minute winds during the tropical stage: 34 kt for a tropical storm, 64 kt for hurricane strength and 96 kt for major intensity, on the Saffir–Simpson scale in every basin. Local agencies classify storms differently, and official season summaries can differ from the archive. Accumulated cyclone energy sums squared winds at six-hourly synoptic times, counting observations in the calendar year. Storms with no US-agency wind are mapped but cannot enter the counts.

The map frame is the same for every North Atlantic season, so a track that leaves it is cut at the edge. Lines show each storm’s center, not its size, rainfall or flood extent. Coastlines use Natural Earth’s 1:10m land data.

Archive retrieved

NOAA IBTrACS archive · Field documentation

Sources & methodology