The 1877 season

Unnamed hurricane (1877)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between September 16, 1877 and September 22, 1877.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1877 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
September 16, 1877 to September 22, 1877
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 54 km (34 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
13.2
Identifier
AL031877

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
Sep 16, 00:0025.5N 50.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 06:0026.0N 51.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 12:0026.8N 53.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 18:0027.5N 54.1W70 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 00:0028.1N 54.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 06:0028.9N 55.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 12:0029.5N 56.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 18:0030.2N 57.3W70 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 00:0030.7N 57.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 06:0031.2N 58.6W70 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 12:0031.7N 59.3W70 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 18:0032.3N 60.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 00:0032.9N 60.7W70 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 06:0033.5N 61.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 12:0034.0N 62.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 18:0034.5N 62.7W70 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 00:0035.0N 63.2W70 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 06:0035.5N 63.7W70 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 12:0036.0N 64.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 18:0036.7N 64.1W70 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 00:0037.5N 64.1W70 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 06:0038.0N 64.1W70 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 12:0038.7N 64.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 18:0040.3N 63.6W70 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 00:0042.2N 62.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0043.8N 61.1W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0045.3N 59.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0046.9N 56.7W60 ktTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1877

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.