The 1889 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1889)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Atlantic between September 15, 1889 and September 19, 1889, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1889 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
September 15, 1889 to September 19, 1889
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1889259N20280

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
Sep 15, 12:0019.5N 80.0WTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0020.0N 80.4WTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0020.5N 80.8WTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0021.0N 81.2WTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0021.5N 81.5WTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0022.0N 81.9WTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0022.5N 82.3WTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0023.0N 82.7WTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0023.5N 83.0WTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0024.8N 82.9WTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0026.0N 82.8WTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0026.9N 82.4WTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0027.8N 82.0WTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0027.8N 81.9WTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0027.7N 81.7WTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0027.6N 81.6WTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0027.5N 81.5WTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1889

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.