The 1889 season

Unnamed hurricane (1889)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between June 15, 1889 and June 20, 1889, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, 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
June 15, 1889 to June 20, 1889
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.3
Identifier
AL021889

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
Jun 15, 00:0019.8N 83.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 06:0020.6N 84.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 12:0021.3N 84.3W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 18:0022.0N 84.6W65 ktHurricane
Jun 16, 00:0022.8N 85.0W65 ktHurricane
Jun 16, 06:0023.7N 85.4W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 16, 12:0024.6N 85.5W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 16, 18:0025.6N 85.4W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 00:0026.6N 85.1W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0027.6N 84.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0028.6N 83.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 15:00 landfall29.1N 82.9W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0029.6N 82.2W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 00:0030.7N 80.9W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 06:0031.7N 79.5W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 12:0032.7N 78.2W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 18:0033.7N 77.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 00:0034.5N 75.9W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 06:0035.4N 74.7W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 12:0036.3N 73.4W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 18:0037.3N 71.6W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 20, 00:0038.4N 69.4W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 20, 06:0039.7N 66.8W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 20, 12:0041.0N 64.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 20, 18:0042.5N 61.2W35 ktTropical 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.