The 1871 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1871)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between June 1, 1871 and June 12, 1871, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1871 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
June 1, 1871 to June 12, 1871
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.7
Identifier
AL011871

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
Jun 1, 00:0024.1N 81.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 1, 06:0024.1N 82.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 1, 12:0024.2N 83.6W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 1, 18:0024.7N 84.6W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 2, 00:0025.2N 85.4W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 2, 06:0025.8N 86.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 2, 12:0026.1N 87.3W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 2, 18:0026.5N 88.6W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 3, 00:0026.8N 89.8W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 3, 06:0027.0N 91.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 3, 12:0027.3N 92.4W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 3, 18:0027.7N 93.3W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 4, 00:0028.2N 94.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 4, 06:0028.9N 95.0W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 07:00 landfall29.1N 95.1W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 12:0029.7N 95.6W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 4, 18:0030.3N 96.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 5, 00:0031.1N 96.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 5, 06:0032.0N 96.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 5, 12:0033.2N 95.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 5, 18:0035.0N 95.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 6, 00:0029.3N 95.6WTropical depression
Jun 6, 06:0029.1N 95.8WTropical depression
Jun 6, 12:0028.9N 96.1WTropical depression
Jun 6, 18:0028.8N 96.3WTropical depression
Jun 7, 00:0028.6N 96.5WTropical depression
Jun 7, 06:0028.5N 96.6WTropical depression
Jun 7, 12:0028.4N 96.6WTropical depression
Jun 7, 18:0028.3N 96.4WTropical depression
Jun 8, 00:0023.4N 90.4W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 8, 06:0024.2N 91.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 8, 12:0025.0N 91.8W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 8, 18:0025.9N 92.6W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 00:0026.7N 93.3W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 06:0027.4N 94.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 12:0028.3N 94.6W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 17:00 landfall29.2N 95.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0029.3N 95.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:0030.3N 95.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 10, 06:0031.3N 95.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0032.4N 95.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 10, 18:0033.5N 95.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 11, 00:0031.6N 90.1WTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0032.2N 89.5WTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0032.8N 89.0WTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0033.3N 88.5WTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0033.8N 88.0WTropical storm
Jun 12, 06:0034.4N 87.5WTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0034.9N 87.0WTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0035.5N 86.5WTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1871

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.