The 1875 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1875)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between August 27, 1875 and August 31, 1875.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1875 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
August 27, 1875 to August 31, 1875
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 997 km (620 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1875239N37308

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
Aug 27, 00:0036.9N 52.4WTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0037.0N 52.1WTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0037.0N 51.8WTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0037.1N 51.1WTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0037.2N 51.1WTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0037.3N 50.8WTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0037.4N 50.6WTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0037.7N 49.7WTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0038.0N 48.8WTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0038.3N 48.1WTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0038.6N 47.4WTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0038.9N 46.9WTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0039.1N 46.4WTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0039.3N 45.9WTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0039.5N 45.4WTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0040.3N 43.6WTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0041.1N 41.3WTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0041.9N 39.4WExtratropical
Aug 31, 12:0042.7N 37.6WExtratropical
Aug 31, 18:0043.5N 35.8WExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1875

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.