The 1852 season

Unnamed hurricane (1852)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between October 3, 1852 and October 12, 1852, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1852 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
October 3, 1852 to October 12, 1852
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
15.7
Identifier
AL051852

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 3, 12:0014.0N 67.0WTropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0014.3N 68.2WTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0014.5N 69.3WTropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0014.8N 70.4WTropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0015.0N 71.5WTropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0015.4N 72.5WTropical storm
Oct 5, 00:0015.8N 73.5WTropical storm
Oct 5, 06:0016.2N 74.5WTropical storm
Oct 5, 12:0016.5N 75.5WTropical storm
Oct 5, 18:0016.9N 76.2WTropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0017.0N 73.8W90 ktHurricane
Oct 6, 06:0017.1N 75.0W90 ktHurricane
Oct 6, 12:0017.2N 76.3W90 ktHurricane
Oct 6, 18:0017.2N 77.8W90 ktHurricane
Oct 7, 00:0017.7N 79.6W90 ktHurricane
Oct 7, 06:0018.2N 81.5W90 ktHurricane
Oct 7, 12:0018.7N 83.1W90 ktHurricane
Oct 7, 18:0019.5N 84.4W90 ktHurricane
Oct 8, 00:0020.4N 85.5W90 ktHurricane
Oct 8, 06:0021.2N 86.4W90 ktHurricane
Oct 8, 12:0022.4N 86.9W90 ktHurricane
Oct 8, 18:0024.0N 86.8W90 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 00:0025.6N 86.4W90 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 06:0026.9N 85.9W90 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 12:0028.0N 85.5W90 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 18:0029.2N 84.9W90 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 21:00 landfall29.9N 84.4W90 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 00:0030.5N 83.9W80 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 06:0031.8N 82.8W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0033.0N 81.1W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0034.0N 79.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0035.0N 77.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0036.0N 74.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0038.0N 70.0W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0040.0N 66.0W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0040.0N 62.3WTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0040.4N 58.4WTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0040.7N 54.5WTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0041.0N 50.0WTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1852

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.