The 1886 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1886)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between October 6, 1886 and October 16, 1886.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1886 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 6, 1886 to October 16, 1886
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 607 km (377 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1886280N35291

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 6, 12:0034.5N 69.0WSubtropical storm
Oct 6, 18:0034.8N 68.8WSubtropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0035.0N 68.5WSubtropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0035.2N 68.3WSubtropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0035.5N 68.0WTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0035.5N 66.8WTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0035.5N 65.6WTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0035.5N 64.4WTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0035.5N 63.5WTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0035.0N 63.4WTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0034.5N 63.3WTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0034.0N 63.2WTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0033.5N 63.0WTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0032.6N 62.7WTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0031.7N 62.5WTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0030.8N 62.3WTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0030.0N 62.0WTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0029.3N 62.3WTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0028.5N 62.5WTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0027.7N 62.8WTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0027.0N 63.0WTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0026.5N 63.0WTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0026.0N 63.0WTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0025.5N 63.0WTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0025.0N 63.0WTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0025.3N 62.7WTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0025.5N 62.5WTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0025.8N 62.3WTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0026.0N 62.0WTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0027.5N 60.0WTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0029.0N 58.0WTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0030.5N 54.7WTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0032.0N 51.5WTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0033.3N 49.6WTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0034.5N 47.7WTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0035.8N 45.8WTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0037.0N 44.0WExtratropical
Oct 15, 18:0038.2N 44.5WExtratropical
Oct 16, 00:0039.4N 45.2WExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1886

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.