Unnamed hurricane (1881)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 21, 1881 to August 30, 1881

Peak strength

Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)

Lowest pressure

970 mb (28.64 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

16.8

Identifier

AL051881

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.

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• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1881Cat 180 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1881Tropical Storm40 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1881Cat 170 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1881Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1881Tropical Depression
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1881Cat 290 kt · 975 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1881Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1881Tropical Storm60 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1881Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1881Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1881Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1881Tropical Depression

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.

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.