The 1879 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1879)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between October 11, 1879 and October 20, 1879.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1879 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 11, 1879 to October 20, 1879
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 620 km (385 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1879285N11308

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 11, 12:0011.0N 52.0WTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0011.7N 52.9WTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0012.3N 53.8WTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0012.9N 54.7WTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0013.5N 55.5WTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0014.3N 56.2WTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0015.0N 56.8WTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0015.8N 57.4WTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0016.5N 58.0WTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0017.5N 58.4WTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0018.5N 58.8WTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0019.5N 59.2WTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0020.5N 59.5WTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0021.5N 59.4WTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0022.5N 59.3WTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0023.5N 59.1WTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0024.5N 59.0WTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0025.7N 57.9WTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0027.0N 55.8WTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0028.3N 54.1WTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0029.5N 52.5WTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0030.4N 50.9WTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0031.3N 49.3WTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0032.2N 47.7WTropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0033.2N 46.2WTropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0033.9N 44.8WTropical storm
Oct 18, 00:0034.5N 43.4WTropical storm
Oct 18, 06:0035.2N 41.9WTropical storm
Oct 18, 12:0035.8N 40.5WTropical storm
Oct 18, 18:0036.6N 39.1WTropical storm
Oct 19, 00:0037.3N 37.6WTropical storm
Oct 19, 06:0038.0N 36.2WTropical storm
Oct 19, 12:0038.7N 34.7WTropical storm
Oct 19, 18:0039.3N 32.3WTropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0039.9N 30.0WTropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0040.5N 28.5WTropical storm
Oct 20, 12:0041.0N 27.0WExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1879

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.