The 1877 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1877)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between September 24, 1877 and October 5, 1877.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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 24, 1877 to October 5, 1877
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 32 km (20 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.6
Identifier
AL051877

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 24, 00:0021.2N 68.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0021.2N 69.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0021.4N 70.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0021.5N 71.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0021.7N 72.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0022.2N 73.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0022.7N 74.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0023.1N 75.4W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0023.6N 76.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0024.2N 77.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0025.1N 77.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0025.9N 77.9W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0026.5N 78.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0027.3N 78.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0028.0N 78.4W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0029.2N 78.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0030.1N 78.4W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0031.4N 78.1W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0032.3N 77.6W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0033.0N 77.1W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0033.7N 76.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0034.2N 75.9W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0034.5N 75.0W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0035.0N 73.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0033.5N 74.0WTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0033.0N 73.4WTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0032.5N 72.7WTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0032.2N 71.9WTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0032.0N 71.1WTropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0031.7N 70.3WTropical storm
Oct 1, 12:0031.5N 69.5WTropical storm
Oct 1, 18:0031.4N 69.0WExtratropical
Oct 2, 00:0031.4N 68.5WExtratropical
Oct 2, 06:0031.3N 68.0WExtratropical
Oct 2, 12:0031.3N 67.5WExtratropical
Oct 2, 18:0031.3N 66.8WExtratropical
Oct 3, 00:0031.5N 66.2WExtratropical
Oct 3, 06:0031.6N 65.6WExtratropical
Oct 3, 12:0031.7N 65.0WExtratropical
Oct 3, 18:0031.9N 64.5WExtratropical
Oct 4, 00:0032.1N 64.0WExtratropical
Oct 4, 06:0032.3N 63.5WExtratropical
Oct 4, 12:0032.5N 63.0WExtratropical
Oct 4, 18:0033.3N 62.3WExtratropical
Oct 5, 00:0034.0N 61.7WExtratropical
Oct 5, 06:0034.8N 61.1WExtratropical
Oct 5, 12:0035.5N 60.5WExtratropical

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.