The 1889 season

Unnamed hurricane (1889)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between September 1, 1889 and September 15, 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
September 1, 1889 to September 15, 1889
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
29.7
Identifier
AL041889

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 1, 00:0011.9N 55.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0012.4N 55.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0013.0N 56.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0013.7N 57.2W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0014.4N 58.2W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0015.1N 59.3W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0015.7N 60.3W65 ktHurricane
Sep 2, 18:0016.1N 61.3W70 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 00:0016.9N 62.3W75 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 06:0017.4N 63.2W80 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 12:0018.0N 64.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 18:0018.7N 65.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 00:0019.4N 66.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 06:0019.9N 66.8W90 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 12:0020.5N 67.5W90 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 18:0021.1N 68.1W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 00:0021.7N 68.5W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 06:0022.4N 68.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 12:0023.3N 68.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 18:0024.7N 68.5W90 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 00:0025.8N 67.9W90 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 06:0027.0N 66.9W90 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 12:0028.3N 66.3W90 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 18:0029.2N 66.3W90 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 00:0029.9N 66.4W90 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 06:0030.9N 66.5W90 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 12:0032.0N 67.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 18:0032.6N 67.4W90 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 00:0033.1N 67.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 06:0033.5N 68.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0034.0N 68.3W90 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0034.3N 68.5W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0034.7N 68.8W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0035.1N 69.2W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0035.5N 69.5W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0036.0N 69.8W90 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0036.3N 70.0W85 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0036.6N 70.2W80 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0037.0N 70.4W80 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 18:0037.4N 70.7W75 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 00:0037.7N 71.1W70 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 06:0038.0N 71.6W70 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 12:0038.3N 72.1W65 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 18:0038.4N 72.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0038.4N 72.9W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0038.1N 73.4W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0037.7N 73.9W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0037.0N 74.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0038.1N 73.9WTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0038.1N 73.9WTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0038.1N 73.8WTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0037.8N 74.1WTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0037.5N 74.3WTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0037.2N 74.6WTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0037.0N 74.8WTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0036.7N 75.8WTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0036.5N 76.8WTropical 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.