The 1884 season

Unnamed hurricane (1884)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between September 9, 1884 and September 20, 1884, with a lowest pressure of 979 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1884 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 9, 1884 to September 20, 1884
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure
979 mb (28.91 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
14.7
Identifier
AL031884

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 9, 06:0026.8N 78.1WTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0027.5N 78.5WTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0028.3N 79.0WTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0028.7N 79.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0029.7N 80.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0030.6N 80.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0031.0N 80.9W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0031.5N 81.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 01:00 landfall31.6N 81.2W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0031.9N 81.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0032.5N 81.6W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 11, 18:0033.0N 81.3W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 12, 00:0033.2N 81.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 12, 06:0033.2N 80.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 12, 12:0033.0N 79.9W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 12, 18:0032.2N 79.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0031.4N 79.1W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0030.5N 78.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0030.3N 77.3W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0030.5N 76.4W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0030.7N 75.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0030.5N 74.4W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0030.0N 74.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0029.6N 73.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0029.3N 73.9W70 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 06:0028.8N 74.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 12:0028.4N 74.4W70 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 18:0028.1N 74.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 00:0027.9N 75.4W70 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 06:0027.8N 76.0W70 kt988 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 12:0027.8N 75.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 18:0027.9N 75.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 00:0028.1N 75.1W80 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 06:0028.4N 74.6W80 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 12:0028.8N 73.5W80 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 18:0029.2N 71.5W80 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 00:0029.6N 68.0W80 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 06:0030.2N 65.3W80 kt979 mbHurricane
Sep 18, 12:0031.4N 61.3W80 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 18:0034.0N 58.5W80 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 00:0039.0N 56.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 06:0042.7N 53.5W70 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 19, 12:0044.5N 50.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 18:0046.0N 45.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 00:0047.7N 40.4W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 20, 06:0049.5N 34.5W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 20, 12:0051.0N 29.0W50 ktExtratropical
Sep 20, 18:0053.0N 23.0W50 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1884

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.