All storm pages · 1957 Atlantic season
Hurricane Carrie 1957
Category 4 hurricane · Atlantic · September 2 to September 22, 1957
Carrie produced 55.8 units of accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), the ninth-most of any Atlantic storm since 1851. It lasted 20.50 days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone, the eighth-longest lifespan of the 1,988 Atlantic storms. No other storm of the 1957 Atlantic season matched its 140 mph peak; the season had 8 storms.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) far out at sea, at 13.0°N, 21.3°W
- Tropical storm far out at sea, at 13.7°N, 25.9°W
- Hurricane far out at sea, at 14.5°N, 32.6°W
- Major hurricane far out at sea, at 16.1°N, 39.1°W
- Peak 1,150 miles northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname; lowest pressure 945 mb
- No longer tropical (extratropical low) far out at sea, at 41.5°N, 23.2°W
- Last record far out at sea, at 50.0°N, 6.0°W
Against every Atlantic storm since 1851
In the 1957 season
Storm 4 of 8 in 1957, hurricane 2 of 3; it formed after Bertha and before Debbie. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Hamilton, Bermuda, 124 miles from the center on September 16 (Category 1 hurricane stage).
Also peaked at 140 mph
Of 35 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:
- Cleo (1958)947 mb, no landfall record
- Connie (1955)944 mb, landfall in North Carolina
- Ione (1955)938 mb, landfall in North Carolina
- Fox (1950)946 mb, no landfall record