The 1886 season

Unnamed hurricane (1886)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between June 7, 1886 and June 15, 1886, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, 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
June 7, 1886 to June 15, 1886
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.2
Identifier
AL011886

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
Jun 7, 00:0017.5N 75.5WTropical storm
Jun 7, 06:0017.4N 75.8WTropical storm
Jun 7, 12:0017.4N 76.0WTropical storm
Jun 7, 18:0017.3N 76.3WTropical storm
Jun 8, 00:0017.3N 76.5WTropical storm
Jun 8, 06:0017.3N 77.0WTropical storm
Jun 8, 12:0017.3N 77.5WTropical storm
Jun 8, 18:0017.4N 78.4WTropical storm
Jun 9, 00:0017.4N 79.3WTropical storm
Jun 9, 06:0017.5N 80.2WTropical storm
Jun 9, 12:0017.5N 81.0WTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0017.8N 81.9WTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:0018.0N 82.8WTropical storm
Jun 10, 06:0018.3N 83.6WTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0018.5N 84.5WTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0019.0N 85.5WTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0019.5N 86.5WTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0020.0N 87.5WTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0020.5N 88.5WTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0021.1N 89.5WTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0021.7N 90.4WTropical storm
Jun 12, 06:0022.3N 91.3WTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0022.8N 92.3WTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0023.1N 92.7WTropical storm
Jun 13, 00:0023.6N 93.0WTropical storm
Jun 13, 06:0023.2N 95.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 13, 12:0024.7N 95.9W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0026.0N 96.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0026.9N 95.8W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 14, 06:0027.9N 95.3W65 ktHurricane
Jun 14, 12:0028.9N 94.7W75 ktHurricane
Jun 14, 16:00 landfall29.6N 94.2W85 ktHurricane
Jun 14, 18:0029.9N 94.0W85 ktHurricane
Jun 15, 00:0030.6N 93.0W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 06:0031.0N 91.8W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 12:0031.2N 90.4W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 18:0031.2N 89.0W30 ktTropical depression

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.