The 1886 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1886)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between October 21, 1886 and October 26, 1886, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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 21, 1886 to October 26, 1886
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.7
Identifier
AL121886

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 21, 00:0014.0N 77.0WTropical storm
Oct 21, 06:0015.0N 76.1WTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0016.0N 75.2WTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0017.8N 73.0W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0018.7N 72.7W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 06:0019.6N 72.4W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0020.5N 72.0W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0021.2N 71.5W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0021.9N 70.8W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0022.7N 69.9W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0023.7N 68.7W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0024.4N 67.5W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0024.9N 66.6W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0025.3N 65.7W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0025.7N 64.5W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0026.0N 63.4W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0026.4N 62.6W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0026.7N 61.7W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0027.0N 60.7W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0027.2N 59.7W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 00:0027.4N 58.9W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0027.5N 58.1W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0027.7N 57.0W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0027.9N 56.0W35 ktTropical storm

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.