Track map, landfall & timeline · Atlantic · July 1–7, 1973
TD TS Cat 1 2 3 4 5 · dashed = post-tropical / remnant low. Click any point or table row to jump there.
01 · The story
Hurricane Alice (1973) was a Category 1 hurricane of the 1973 Atlantic season. It formed on July 1, 1973, 329 mi NE of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, reached its peak of 86 mph (139 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 984 mb on July 4, 1973, and made landfall at 47.6°N, 59.0°W on July 6, 1973 as a tropical storm (58 mph). The storm lasted 6.0 days and travelled about 2,011 miles (3,236 km).
02 · Intensity
03 · Impact
| Landfall (UTC) | Where | Strength | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 6, 1973 · 17:00 UTC | at 47.6°N, 59.0°W | TS 58 mph | — |
04 · Timeline
| Date · UTC | Status | Wind | Pressure | Position | Nearest place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1 00:00 | TD | 29 mph | — | 25.5°N 69.0°W | open ocean |
| Jul 1 06:00 | TD | 29 mph | — | 25.6°N 68.6°W | open ocean |
| Jul 1 12:00 | TD | 35 mph | 1008 mb | 25.8°N 68.2°W | open ocean |
| Jul 1 18:00 | TD | 35 mph | 1006 mb | 26.0°N 67.8°W | open ocean |
| Jul 2 00:00 | TD | 35 mph | — | 26.3°N 67.5°W | open ocean |
| Jul 2 06:00 | TD | 35 mph | — | 26.5°N 67.2°W | open ocean |
| Jul 2 12:00 | TS | 40 mph | 1008 mb | 26.9°N 66.8°W | open ocean |
| Jul 2 18:00 | TS | 46 mph | 1008 mb | 27.4°N 66.4°W | open ocean |
| Jul 3 00:00 | TS | 52 mph | 1006 mb | 28.0°N 65.9°W | open ocean |
| Jul 3 06:00 | TS | 58 mph | 1008 mb | 28.8°N 65.6°W | open ocean |
| Jul 3 12:00 | TS | 63 mph | 1000 mb | 29.7°N 65.6°W | 186 mi SSW of Pembroke Parish, Bermuda |
| Jul 3 18:00 | TS | 69 mph | 998 mb | 30.6°N 65.5°W | 125 mi SSW of Pembroke Parish, Bermuda |
| Jul 4 00:00 | TS | 69 mph | 999 mb | 31.4°N 65.3°W | 69 mi SSW of Pembroke Parish, Bermuda |
| Jul 4 06:00 | Cat 1 | 86 mph | 986 mb | 32.3°N 65.1°W | 18 mi W of Pembroke Parish, Bermuda |
| Jul 4 08:00 | Cat 1 | 86 mph | 984 mb | 32.6°N 65.0°W | 24 mi NNW of Pembroke Parish, Bermuda |
| Jul 4 12:00 | Cat 1 | 81 mph | 990 mb | 33.2°N 65.0°W | 63 mi N of Pembroke Parish, Bermuda |
| Jul 4 18:00 | Cat 1 | 75 mph | 995 mb | 34.0°N 65.2°W | 120 mi NNW of Pembroke Parish, Bermuda |
| Jul 5 00:00 | Cat 1 | 75 mph | 995 mb | 35.0°N 65.0°W | open ocean |
| Jul 5 06:00 | Cat 1 | 75 mph | — | 35.9°N 64.7°W | open ocean |
| Jul 5 12:00 | Cat 1 | 75 mph | 993 mb | 36.9°N 64.4°W | open ocean |
| Jul 5 18:00 | Cat 1 | 75 mph | 990 mb | 38.3°N 63.9°W | open ocean |
| Jul 6 00:00 | Cat 1 | 75 mph | 991 mb | 40.3°N 62.8°W | open ocean |
| Jul 6 06:00 | TS | 69 mph | — | 42.5°N 61.6°W | 178 mi SE of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Jul 6 12:00 | TS | 69 mph | 991 mb | 45.1°N 59.7°W | 75 mi SSE of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Jul 6 17:00 | TS LANDFALL | 58 mph | — | 47.6°N 59.0°W | 105 mi SSW of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
| Jul 6 18:00 | TS | 58 mph | — | 48.3°N 58.8°W | 59 mi SW of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
| Jul 7 00:00 | TS extratropical | 46 mph | — | 52.0°N 56.5°W | open ocean |
⬇ Download track data (CSV) · public-domain NOAA best track
Questions
Alice made landfall once: at 47.6°N, 59.0°W on July 6, 1973 at 17:00 UTC, as a tropical storm with 58 mph winds.
At its peak on July 4, 1973, Alice was a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 86 mph (139 km/h) and a central pressure of 984 mb. At its first landfall it was a tropical storm.
6.0 days, from July 1, 1973 to July 7, 1973, including 48 hours at hurricane strength. It travelled about 2,011 miles.
The 6-hourly positions, winds, pressure and wind radii are available as CSV on this page (track.csv) — they come from the NOAA National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database and are in the public domain.
This site was built by Digital Dynamics Kft.
This archive is our own work, built from openly available data — the NOAA best-track records, the replay engine, the wind-field rendering and the map tiles served from our own servers in the European Union. If your business generates data — measurements, machines, orders, customers — we are happy to turn it into a clear, interactive interface.
But this is not all we build:
Or anything else that can be programmed — just get in touch.
See our work → or write: info@digitaldynamics.hu