The 1887 season

Unnamed hurricane (1887)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between October 9, 1887 and October 22, 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
October 9, 1887 to October 22, 1887
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.6
Identifier
AL131887

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 9, 06:0019.1N 59.7W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0019.2N 61.0W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0019.3N 62.4W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0019.3N 63.8W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0019.4N 65.2W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0019.4N 66.6W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0019.4N 68.0W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0019.4N 69.7W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0019.4N 71.1W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0019.5N 72.7W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0019.5N 74.3W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0019.6N 76.0W65 ktHurricane
Oct 12, 06:0019.7N 77.4W70 ktHurricane
Oct 12, 12:0020.0N 78.7W75 ktHurricane
Oct 12, 18:0020.3N 79.8W75 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 00:0020.7N 80.9W75 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 06:0021.1N 81.9W75 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 12:0021.5N 82.7W75 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 18:0021.7N 83.4W75 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 00:0022.0N 84.1W70 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 06:0022.2N 84.7W65 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 12:0022.5N 85.3W65 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 18:0022.6N 85.9W70 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 00:0022.9N 86.5W75 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 06:0023.1N 87.0W75 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 12:0023.3N 87.5W75 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 18:0023.5N 87.8W75 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 00:0023.7N 88.2W75 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 06:0023.9N 88.5W75 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 12:0024.1N 88.8W75 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 18:0024.3N 89.3W75 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 00:0024.5N 89.6W75 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 06:0024.8N 89.9W75 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 12:0025.1N 90.2W75 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 18:0025.6N 90.5W75 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 00:0026.3N 90.9W75 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 06:0027.1N 91.2W75 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 12:0027.7N 91.3W75 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 18:0028.3N 91.1W75 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 00:0028.9N 90.7W75 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 02:00 landfall29.1N 90.4W75 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 06:0029.5N 90.0W65 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 12:0030.2N 89.1W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 19, 18:0030.9N 88.0W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0031.5N 86.1W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0032.2N 84.1W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 20, 12:0033.0N 82.5W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 20, 18:0034.4N 79.9W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 21, 00:0035.7N 77.1W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 21, 06:0037.6N 74.0W40 ktExtratropical
Oct 21, 12:0039.5N 72.0W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 21, 18:0042.0N 69.0W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 22, 00:0046.6N 65.2W45 ktExtratropical

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.