The 1886 season

Unnamed hurricane (1886)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between June 17, 1886 and June 24, 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 17, 1886 to June 24, 1886
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.1
Identifier
AL021886

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 17, 00:0019.1N 84.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0019.6N 85.1W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0020.0N 85.3W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0020.4N 85.4W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 00:0020.7N 85.6W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 06:0021.1N 85.6W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 12:0021.7N 85.7W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 18:0022.1N 85.7W65 ktHurricane
Jun 19, 00:0022.5N 85.7W70 ktHurricane
Jun 19, 06:0022.9N 85.6W75 ktHurricane
Jun 19, 12:0023.3N 85.3W80 ktHurricane
Jun 19, 18:0023.8N 85.1W80 ktHurricane
Jun 20, 00:0024.3N 84.9W85 ktHurricane
Jun 20, 06:0024.7N 84.7W85 ktHurricane
Jun 20, 12:0025.3N 84.5W85 ktHurricane
Jun 20, 18:0026.3N 84.4W85 ktHurricane
Jun 21, 00:0027.7N 84.2W85 ktHurricane
Jun 21, 06:0028.9N 84.1W85 ktHurricane
Jun 21, 11:00 landfall30.1N 84.0W85 ktHurricane
Jun 21, 12:0030.3N 84.0W80 ktHurricane
Jun 21, 18:0031.3N 83.8W65 ktHurricane
Jun 22, 00:0032.3N 83.2W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 22, 06:0033.8N 82.2W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 22, 12:0035.2N 81.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 22, 18:0036.3N 79.3W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 23, 00:0037.3N 78.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 23, 06:0038.4N 76.9W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 23, 12:0039.3N 75.3W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 23, 18:0039.9N 73.2W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 24, 00:0040.2N 70.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 24, 06:0040.1N 66.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 24, 12:0040.0N 61.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 24, 18:0039.9N 57.0W30 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.