The 1876 season

Unnamed hurricane (1876)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between October 10, 1876 and October 25, 1876, with a lowest pressure of 958 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1876 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 10, 1876 to October 25, 1876
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
958 mb (28.29 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
23.8
Identifier
AL051876

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 10, 12:0010.7N 81.2WTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0011.2N 80.8WTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0011.6N 80.5WTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0012.1N 80.1WTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0012.5N 79.8WTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0013.1N 79.6WTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0012.0N 79.0W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0012.2N 79.0W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0012.4N 79.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0012.6N 79.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0012.8N 79.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0013.0N 79.1W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0013.2N 79.2W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0013.5N 79.2W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0013.8N 79.4W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0014.1N 79.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0014.4N 79.6W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0014.7N 79.7W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0015.0N 79.8W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0015.4N 79.9W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0015.8N 80.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0016.2N 80.1W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0016.6N 80.2W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0017.0N 80.3W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0017.4N 80.4W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0017.8N 80.5W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0018.2N 80.6W70 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 06:0018.6N 80.7W70 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 12:0019.0N 80.8W80 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 18:0019.4N 80.9W80 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 00:0019.7N 81.1W90 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 06:0020.2N 81.3W90 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 12:0020.7N 81.5W90 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 18:0021.2N 81.7W90 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 00:0021.7N 81.9W100 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 06:0022.3N 82.2W100 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 12:0022.7N 82.3W100 kt958 mbHurricane
Oct 19, 18:0023.6N 82.3W90 kt966 mbHurricane
Oct 20, 00:0024.7N 81.9W90 kt973 mbHurricane
Oct 20, 05:00 landfall25.8N 81.4W90 kt973 mbHurricane
Oct 20, 06:0026.0N 81.3W90 kt973 mbHurricane
Oct 20, 12:0027.5N 80.5W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Oct 20, 18:0028.8N 79.6W80 kt976 mbHurricane
Oct 21, 00:0030.0N 78.8W80 ktHurricane
Oct 21, 06:0031.0N 77.9W80 ktHurricane
Oct 21, 12:0031.9N 76.7W80 ktHurricane
Oct 21, 18:0032.5N 74.9W80 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 00:0033.0N 72.6W80 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 06:0033.3N 69.8W80 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 12:0033.5N 67.8W70 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 18:0033.5N 66.6W70 ktHurricane
Oct 23, 00:0033.8N 65.6W70 ktHurricane
Oct 23, 06:0033.9N 64.6W70 ktHurricane
Oct 23, 12:0034.0N 63.5W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0034.2N 62.0W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0036.2N 62.7WExtratropical
Oct 24, 06:0036.8N 62.5WExtratropical
Oct 24, 12:0037.5N 62.5WExtratropical
Oct 24, 18:0039.7N 62.1WExtratropical
Oct 25, 00:0041.9N 61.8WExtratropical
Oct 25, 06:0044.0N 61.4WExtratropical
Oct 25, 12:0046.0N 61.0WExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1876

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.