Unnamed hurricane (1887)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between July 20, 1887 and July 30, 1887, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1887 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 20, 1887 to July 30, 1887
Peak strength: Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 19.5
Identifier: AL041887

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	Status
Jul 20, 00:00	12.0N 57.6W	60 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 20, 06:00	12.1N 59.2W	60 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 20, 12:00	12.3N 61.0W	60 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 20, 18:00	12.5N 62.4W	60 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 21, 00:00	12.7N 63.6W	60 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 21, 06:00	12.9N 64.9W	70 kt	Hurricane
Jul 21, 12:00	13.2N 66.3W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 21, 18:00	13.4N 67.6W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 22, 00:00	13.7N 68.9W	80 kt	Hurricane
Jul 22, 06:00	14.0N 70.2W	80 kt	Hurricane
Jul 22, 12:00	14.2N 71.4W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 22, 18:00	14.4N 72.6W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 23, 00:00	14.6N 73.8W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 23, 06:00	14.7N 75.0W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 23, 12:00	15.0N 76.5W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 23, 18:00	15.1N 77.4W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 24, 00:00	15.3N 78.8W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 24, 06:00	15.6N 80.3W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 24, 12:00	16.1N 81.7W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 24, 18:00	16.9N 84.0W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 25, 00:00	17.9N 85.5W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 25, 06:00	18.9N 86.2W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 25, 12:00	20.2N 86.9W	85 kt	Hurricane
Jul 25, 18:00	21.5N 87.2W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 26, 00:00	22.7N 87.3W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 26, 06:00	23.9N 87.5W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 26, 12:00	25.1N 87.6W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 26, 18:00	26.3N 87.7W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 27, 00:00	27.5N 87.6W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 27, 06:00	28.7N 87.2W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 27, 12:00	29.9N 86.8W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 27, 15:00 landfall	30.4N 86.6W	75 kt	Hurricane
Jul 27, 18:00	30.9N 86.3W	65 kt	Hurricane
Jul 28, 00:00	31.7N 85.8W	50 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 28, 06:00	32.3N 85.4W	40 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 28, 12:00	32.8N 85.0W	35 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 28, 18:00	33.6N 84.4W	30 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 29, 00:00	32.1N 84.2W		Tropical storm
Jul 29, 06:00	32.2N 83.5W		Tropical storm
Jul 29, 12:00	32.0N 82.9W		Tropical storm
Jul 29, 18:00	31.8N 82.3W		Tropical storm
Jul 30, 00:00	31.5N 82.3W		Tropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1887

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.