Unnamed hurricane (1886)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between July 14, 1886 and July 24, 1886, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, 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: July 14, 1886 to July 24, 1886
Peak strength: Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure: 990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 13.6
Identifier: AL041886

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Jul 14, 06:00	18.9N 82.9W	35 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 14, 12:00	19.2N 83.4W	40 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 14, 18:00	19.4N 83.8W	40 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 15, 00:00	19.6N 84.2W	45 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 15, 06:00	19.8N 84.6W	45 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 15, 12:00	20.0N 85.0W	50 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 15, 18:00	20.2N 85.3W	50 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 16, 00:00	20.4N 85.6W	55 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 16, 06:00	20.6N 85.8W	55 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 16, 12:00	20.7N 86.0W	60 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 16, 18:00	20.9N 85.9W	60 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 17, 00:00	21.1N 85.7W	60 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 17, 06:00	21.3N 85.5W	60 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 17, 12:00	21.5N 85.3W	65 kt		Hurricane
Jul 17, 18:00	22.4N 84.8W	65 kt		Hurricane
Jul 18, 00:00	23.7N 84.4W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 18, 06:00	25.1N 83.9W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 18, 12:00	26.5N 83.5W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 18, 18:00	27.6N 83.3W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 19, 00:00	28.7N 82.8W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 19, 01:00 landfall	28.8N 82.7W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 19, 06:00	29.5N 82.1W	55 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 19, 12:00	30.3N 81.0W	50 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 19, 18:00	31.4N 78.6W	60 kt		Tropical storm
Jul 20, 00:00	32.7N 75.6W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 20, 06:00	33.9N 72.6W	75 kt		Hurricane
Jul 20, 12:00	35.0N 70.0W	75 kt		Hurricane
Jul 20, 18:00	35.8N 68.0W	75 kt		Hurricane
Jul 21, 00:00	36.8N 65.3W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 21, 06:00	37.7N 62.6W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 21, 12:00	38.7N 60.0W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 21, 18:00	39.8N 56.9W	70 kt	990 mb	Hurricane
Jul 22, 00:00	41.4N 53.5W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 22, 06:00	43.0N 49.8W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 22, 12:00	44.3N 46.3W	70 kt		Hurricane
Jul 22, 18:00	45.1N 43.1W	65 kt		Hurricane
Jul 23, 00:00	46.1N 39.5W	60 kt		Extratropical
Jul 23, 06:00	47.0N 35.6W	60 kt		Extratropical
Jul 23, 12:00	48.0N 32.0W	60 kt		Extratropical
Jul 23, 18:00	49.5N 29.0W	60 kt		Extratropical
Jul 24, 00:00	51.5N 25.8W	60 kt		Extratropical
Jul 24, 06:00	53.7N 22.7W	60 kt		Extratropical
Jul 24, 12:00	55.5N 21.0W	55 kt		Extratropical
Jul 24, 18:00	57.3N 19.5W	50 kt		Extratropical

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.