2013 Atlantic hurricane season

The **2013 Atlantic hurricane season** was one of the weakest seasons, but it has a high number of named storms, as this season was the first since 1994 with 0 major hurricanes, and the first since 1968 that had its strongest system being a Category 1 hurricane. 15 depressions formed, with 13 becoming tropical storms, 1 subtropical storm was discovered in a post-season analysis and as such, was not named. 2 of those tropical storms became hurricanes, but as the strongest hurricane was a only a high-end Category 1, none of the hurricanes became major hurricanes. The lack of strong storms was due an "unexpected significant weakening of the Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation between winter and spring." That caused the spring weather patterns, to continue throughout the season, such patterns being, strong vertical wind shear, mid-level moisture, and strong atmospheric stability.

The strongest storm was Hurricane Humberto, a high-end Category 1 that caused minimal damage, however, the costliest storm was Hurricane Ingrid, another Category 1 that, along with Hurricane Manuel in the Eastern Pacific, caused $5.7 Billion USD, in damages to Mexico. Manuel, caused most of the damage, however, Ingrid was directly responsible for $1.5 Billion USD, in damages.

## Storms

### Tropical Storm Andrea

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Andrea (2013)*
Andrea was a tropical storm that made landfall on the northwest coast of the Florida Peninsula. It became a gale-force extratropical low over the southeastern United States.

### Tropical Storm Barry

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Barry (2013)*
Barry was a tropical storm that produced heavy rainfall and flooding across portions of Central America, the Yucatan Peninsula, and eastern Mexico; the flooding resulted in five direct deaths.

### Tropical Storm Chantal

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Chantal (2013)*
Chantal was a rare early July tropical storm that formed over the tropical Atlantic that rapidly passed through the central Lesser Antilles. It then dissipated over the central Caribbean Sea south of Hispaniola.

### Tropical Storm Dorian

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Dorian*
Dorian was a tropical storm that formed over the far eastern Atlantic and then degenerated into a trough of low pressure east of the northern Leeward Islands. Several days later the system was briefly a tropical depression again near the northwestern Bahamas.

### Tropical Storm Erin

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Erin (2013)*
Erin was a weak tropical storm that moved south of the Cape Verde Islands and dissipated over the central Atlantic.

### Tropical Storm Fernand

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Fernand*
Fernand was a short-lived tropical storm that formed in the southern Bay of Campeche and made landfall just to the north-northwest of Veracruz, Mexico. Heavy rainfall due to Fernand caused flash flooding and landslides that took the lives of 14 people.

### Tropical Storm Gabrielle

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Gabrielle (2013)*
Gabrielle affected Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic as a tropical depression and passed near Bermuda as a tropical storm.

### Tropical Depression Eight

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Depression Eight (2013)*
Tropical Depression Eight was a short-lived tropical cyclone that made landfall near Tampico, Mexico.

### Hurricane Humberto

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Hurricane Humberto (2013)*
Humberto was a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that produced heavy rains and gusty winds over the Cape Verde Islands early in its twelve-day lifetime over the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

### Hurricane Ingrid

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Hurricane Ingrid*
Ingrid was a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico that made landfall as a tropical storm in northeastern Mexico. In combination with Eastern Pacific Hurricane Manuel, it caused widespread flooding and many casualties in Mexico.

### Tropical Storm Jerry

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Jerry (2013)*
Jerry was a small tropical storm that spent its short lifetime over the central Atlantic Ocean.

### Tropical Storm Karen

 Duration
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*Main article: Tropical Storm Karen (2013)*
Karen was a tropical storm that formed near the Yucatan peninsula and moved northwestward into the north-central Gulf of Mexico, where it dissipated in a high-shear environment. It was one of only a small number of named storms that dissipated in the Gulf of Mexico without making landfall.

### Tropical Storm Lorenzo

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Lorenzo (2013)*
Lorenzo was a short-lived tropical storm that remained over the open waters of the central Atlantic.

### Tropical Storm Melissa

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Tropical Storm Melissa (2013)*
Melissa was a subtropical storm that transitioned to a tropical cyclone over the central Atlantic Ocean. The storm brought large swells to Bermuda and northern portions of the Caribbean Islands, and produced strong winds over the western Azores Islands.

### Unnamed Subtropical Storm

 Duration
 Peak intensity

*Main article: Subtropical Storm Fifteen*
As part of its routine post-season review, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) occasionally identifies from new data or meteorological interpretation a previously undesignated tropical or subtropical cyclone. The NHC re-analysis of 2013 has concluded that a short-lived low that developed south of the Azores during early December was a subtropical storm.

## Storm names

The following names were used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2013. The names not retired from this list will be used again in the 2019 season. This is the same list used in the 2007 season except for Dorian, Fernand, and Nestor, which replaced Dean, Felix, and Noel respectively. The names Dorian and Fernand were used for the first time this year. Names that were not used are marked in gray.

* Barry
* Chantal
* Dorian
* Erin
* Fernand
* Gabrielle
* Ingrid
* Jerry
* Karen
* Lorenzo
* Melissa
* Nestor *(unused)*
* Pablo *(unused)*
* Rebekah *(unused)*
* Sebastien *(unused)*
* Tanya *(unused)*
* Van *(unused)*
* Wendy *(unused)*

### Retirement

*See also: List of retired hurricane names*

On April 10, 2014, the name *Ingrid* was retired due to the deaths and damages it caused. It was replaced by *Imelda* for the 2019 season.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL012013\_Andrea.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL022013\_Barry.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL032013\_Chantal.pdf
4. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL042013\_Dorian.pdf
5. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL052013\_Erin.pdf
6. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL062013\_Fernand.pdf
7. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL072013\_Gabrielle.pdf
8. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL082013\_Eight.pdf
9. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092013\_Humberto.pdf
10. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL102013\_Ingrid.pdf
11. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL112013\_Jerry.pdf
12. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL122013\_Karen.pdf
13. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL132013\_Lorenzo.pdf
14. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142013\_Melissa.pdf
15. ↑ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL152013\_Unnamed.pdf