Unnamed hurricane (1887)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between August 14, 1887 and August 24, 1887, with a lowest pressure of 972 mb.

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: August 14, 1887 to August 24, 1887
Peak strength: Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure: 972 mb (28.70 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 62 km (39 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 18.4
Identifier: AL061887

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
Aug 14, 00:00	16.0N 58.2W			Tropical storm
Aug 14, 06:00	16.5N 59.3W			Tropical storm
Aug 14, 12:00	17.0N 59.0W	35 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 14, 18:00	18.0N 60.0W	35 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 15, 00:00	19.0N 61.0W	35 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 15, 06:00	20.0N 62.2W	35 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 15, 12:00	21.0N 63.4W	35 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 15, 18:00	21.8N 64.6W	40 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 16, 00:00	22.4N 65.8W	40 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 16, 06:00	22.9N 66.9W	45 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 16, 12:00	23.4N 68.0W	50 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 16, 18:00	23.8N 69.1W	50 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 17, 00:00	24.2N 70.2W	55 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 17, 06:00	24.6N 71.3W	60 kt		Tropical storm
Aug 17, 12:00	25.0N 72.5W	65 kt		Hurricane
Aug 17, 18:00	25.5N 73.8W	70 kt		Hurricane
Aug 18, 00:00	26.0N 74.9W	75 kt		Hurricane
Aug 18, 06:00	26.5N 75.8W	80 kt		Hurricane
Aug 18, 12:00	27.0N 76.7W	85 kt		Hurricane
Aug 18, 18:00	27.6N 77.5W	90 kt		Hurricane
Aug 19, 00:00	28.1N 78.2W	90 kt		Hurricane
Aug 19, 06:00	28.6N 78.8W	95 kt		Hurricane
Aug 19, 12:00	29.5N 79.0W	100 kt		Hurricane
Aug 19, 18:00	30.9N 78.8W	100 kt		Hurricane
Aug 20, 00:00	32.4N 78.0W	100 kt		Hurricane
Aug 20, 06:00	33.6N 76.7W	105 kt		Hurricane
Aug 20, 12:00	35.0N 75.0W	105 kt		Hurricane
Aug 20, 18:00	36.7N 73.1W	105 kt		Hurricane
Aug 21, 00:00	38.2N 70.9W	100 kt		Hurricane
Aug 21, 06:00	39.8N 68.4W	95 kt		Hurricane
Aug 21, 12:00	41.0N 66.0W	90 kt		Hurricane
Aug 21, 18:00	42.0N 62.0W	80 kt		Hurricane
Aug 22, 00:00	42.8N 57.7W	75 kt		Hurricane
Aug 22, 06:00	43.4N 53.6W	70 kt		Hurricane
Aug 22, 12:00	44.0N 49.5W	70 kt		Extratropical
Aug 22, 18:00	44.9N 45.6W	75 kt		Extratropical
Aug 23, 00:00	46.0N 42.0W	70 kt		Extratropical
Aug 23, 06:00	47.6N 38.6W	70 kt		Extratropical
Aug 23, 12:00	49.0N 35.0W	70 kt	972 mb	Extratropical
Aug 23, 18:00	50.6N 30.0W	70 kt		Extratropical
Aug 24, 00:00	51.0N 26.5W			Extratropical

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.