The 1867 season

Unnamed hurricane (1867)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between October 27, 1867 and November 1, 1867, with a lowest pressure of 952 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1867 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 27, 1867 to November 1, 1867
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
952 mb (28.11 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.0
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
AL091867

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 27, 00:0019.0N 50.5W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0019.0N 51.5W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0019.0N 52.6W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0019.0N 53.7W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0019.0N 55.0W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0019.0N 56.3W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0019.0N 57.7W70 ktHurricane
Oct 28, 18:0019.0N 59.2W80 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 00:0019.0N 60.7W90 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 06:0018.9N 62.0W100 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 12:0018.6N 63.3W110 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 18:0018.4N 64.8W100 kt952 mbHurricane
Oct 30, 00:0018.3N 66.5W80 ktHurricane
Oct 30, 06:0018.2N 68.1W70 ktHurricane
Oct 30, 12:0018.2N 69.6W80 ktHurricane
Oct 30, 18:0018.4N 71.5W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0018.6N 73.5W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0019.7N 72.5WTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0020.3N 73.2WTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0020.9N 73.7WTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0021.5N 73.8WTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1867

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.