The 1891 season

Unnamed hurricane (1891)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between July 3, 1891 and July 8, 1891, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1891 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
July 3, 1891 to July 8, 1891
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.3
Identifier
AL011891

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
Jul 3, 06:0021.7N 93.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0022.0N 93.2W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0022.4N 93.5W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0022.9N 93.9W65 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 06:0023.4N 94.2W75 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 12:0024.0N 94.5W80 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 18:0024.7N 94.8W80 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 00:0025.4N 95.1W80 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 06:0026.2N 95.4W80 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 12:0027.1N 95.6W80 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 18:0028.1N 95.6W80 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 22:00 landfall28.8N 95.5W80 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 00:0029.2N 95.4W70 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 06:0030.3N 95.1W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 6, 12:0031.2N 94.7W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 6, 18:0031.9N 94.3W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 7, 00:0032.5N 93.8W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 7, 06:0033.1N 93.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 7, 12:0033.7N 92.3W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 7, 18:0034.2N 91.1W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 8, 00:0034.6N 89.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 8, 06:0035.0N 88.1W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 8, 12:0035.9N 84.6WTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0036.6N 82.3WTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1891

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.