1883 Atlantic hurricane season

1883 Atlantic hurricane season
1883 Atlantic hurricane season
	Season summary map
Seasonal boundaries
First system formed	August 18, 1883
Last system dissipated	October 24, 1883
Strongest storm
Name	Two
• Maximum winds	125 mph (205 km/h); (1-minute sustained)
• Lowest pressure	948 mbar (hPa; 27.99 inHg)
Seasonal statistics
Total storms	4
Hurricanes	3
Major hurricanes; (Cat. 3+)	2
Total fatalities	236
Total damage	Unknown
	Atlantic hurricane seasons; 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885

The 1883 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1883. This is the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. In the 1883 Atlantic season there was one tropical storm, one Category 1 hurricane, and two major hurricanes (Category 3+). However, in the absence of modern satellite monitoring and remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher. An undercount bias of zero to six tropical cyclones per year between 1851 and 1885 and zero to four per year between 1886 and 1910 has been estimated.^[1]

^ Landsea, C. W. (2004). "The Atlantic hurricane database re-analysis project: Documentation for the 1851–1910 alterations and additions to the HURDAT database". In Murname, R. J.; Liu, K.-B. (eds.). Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present and Future. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 177–221. ISBN 0-231-12388-4.

[1] Landsea, C. W. (2004). "The Atlantic hurricane database re-analysis project: Documentation for the 1851–1910 alterations and additions to the HURDAT database". In Murname, R. J.; Liu, K.-B. (eds.). Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present and Future. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 177–221. ISBN 0-231-12388-4.

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