The 1882 season

Unnamed hurricane (1882)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 1, 1882 and September 13, 1882, with a lowest pressure of 949 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1882 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 1, 1882 to September 13, 1882
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
949 mb (28.02 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
23.5
Identifier
AL021882

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 1, 00:0019.0N 64.0WTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0019.3N 64.7WTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0019.6N 65.4WTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0019.9N 66.1WTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0019.5N 67.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0019.7N 68.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0020.2N 69.3W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0020.7N 70.1W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0021.2N 70.9W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0021.7N 71.8W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0022.0N 72.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 18:0022.2N 73.4W70 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 00:0022.5N 74.3W80 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 06:0022.5N 75.1W80 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 12:0022.5N 76.1W90 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 18:0022.4N 77.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 00:0022.4N 77.8W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 06:0022.4N 78.6W80 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 12:0022.4N 79.5W80 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 18:0022.4N 80.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 00:0022.4N 82.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 06:0022.4N 82.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 12:0022.4N 83.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 18:0022.4N 84.6W70 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 00:0022.6N 85.8W80 kt981 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 06:0023.1N 86.6W80 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 12:0023.7N 87.3W80 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 18:0024.2N 87.6W80 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 00:0024.7N 88.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 06:0025.4N 88.3W90 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0026.0N 88.6W90 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0026.4N 88.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0026.8N 88.8W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0027.2N 88.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0027.7N 88.4W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0028.8N 88.0W100 kt961 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0030.0N 87.1W110 kt949 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 02:00 landfall30.4N 86.8W110 kt949 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0031.1N 86.1W80 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0031.9N 85.1W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0033.0N 84.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0033.7N 83.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0034.5N 82.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0035.3N 80.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0036.7N 78.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0038.4N 74.9W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0040.0N 71.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0041.7N 68.1W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0043.7N 64.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0045.2N 61.0W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 13, 06:0046.5N 57.5W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 13, 12:0046.5N 57.5WExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1882

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.