The 1933 Atlantic hurricane season set the pre-satellite era record for most tropical storms formed within a single season. It also produced the highest Accumulated Cyclone Energy on record in the Atlantic basin, with a total of 259. The deadliest storm of the season was a hurricane that struck Tampico, Mexico, killing over 184 residents. The costliest hurricane was the Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane, which caused USD 27 million in damage from North Carolina to New Jersey.
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The 1933 Atlantic hurricane season set the pre-satellite era record for most tropical storms formed within a single season. It also produced the highest Accumulated Cyclone Energy on record in the Atlantic basin, with a total of 259. The season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1933, with activity as early as May and as late as November. A tropical cyclone was active for all but 13 days from June 28 to October 7. Of the season’s 20 documented tropical storms, 11 attained hurricane status. Six of those were major hurricanes, with sustained winds of over 111 mph. Two of the hurricanes reached winds of 160 mph, which is a Category 5–the highest of 5– on the modern Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. The deadliest storm of the season was a hurricane that struck Tampico, Mexico, killing over 184 residents. The costliest hurricane was the Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane, which caused USD 27 million in damage from North Carolina to New Jersey. During the season, the U. S. Weather Bureau issued storm and hurricane warnings for eight storms, including coastal portions of Texas, as well as from Florida to Massachusetts, forcing the evacuations of thousands of people. All but 3 of the 20 known storms affected land at some point during their durations. The 1933 season was the most active of its time, surpassing the previous record-holder of 19 storms in 1887. Fifteen of the storms made landfall as tropical cyclones, and another struck land as extratropical storms.
At the time, many storms received the distinction of being the earliest nth storm to form, such as the earliest fifth tropical storm to formed in a season. Most of the records were broken in later years. The first storm of 1933 formed on May 14 off the Caribbean coast. It moved quickly to the north to the east-northwest coast of Nicaragua. However, it was surpassed by 1950, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2004 and 2017 by 2005, 2005 and 2017, which was surpassing 1933 by 2005 by 1995, 1995 and 2005, and 2005 by 2017 by 2017. A 2013 reanalysis of the 1933 Atlantic Hurricane Database did indeed identify two new tropical storms; but it was also determined that two existing cyclones did not reach tropical storm intensity and so were removed from the database. As a result, the season storm total dropped from 21 to 20. A research meteorologist Christopher Landsea estimates that the 1933 season may have produced an additional 2–3 missed tropicalcyclones. There was a tropical storm in the Caribbean in the middle of August, but there was no evidence that the tropical system was organized, so it was not classified as a tropicalStorm in September, but it also downgraded to a tropical depression due to lack of gale-force winds. In late September, there was a depression in the northeastern Atlantic west of the Azores, and one ship reported hurricane- force winds; however, there were little evidence that it was organized.
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