The 1892 season

Unnamed hurricane (1892)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between August 14, 1892 and August 24, 1892, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1892 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
August 14, 1892 to August 24, 1892
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.4
Identifier
AL021892

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
Aug 14, 00:0016.0N 52.0WTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0016.4N 52.9WTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0016.7N 53.8WTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0017.0N 54.7WTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0018.0N 54.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0018.0N 55.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0018.0N 56.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0018.1N 57.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0018.2N 58.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0018.5N 59.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0018.9N 60.5W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0019.3N 61.4W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0019.7N 62.2W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0020.1N 63.0W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0020.6N 63.7W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0021.1N 64.3W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0021.5N 65.0W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0022.0N 65.7W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0022.8N 66.3W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0024.0N 67.0W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0024.9N 67.3W65 ktHurricane
Aug 19, 06:0025.9N 67.7W65 ktHurricane
Aug 19, 12:0027.0N 68.0W65 ktHurricane
Aug 19, 18:0028.4N 68.4W65 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 00:0030.0N 68.6W65 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 06:0031.8N 68.6W65 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 12:0033.5N 68.0W65 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 18:0035.1N 67.2W65 ktHurricane
Aug 21, 00:0036.4N 66.2W65 ktHurricane
Aug 21, 06:0038.2N 64.7W65 ktHurricane
Aug 21, 12:0040.0N 63.0W65 ktHurricane
Aug 21, 18:0041.7N 61.6W65 ktHurricane
Aug 22, 00:0043.5N 59.8W60 ktExtratropical
Aug 22, 06:0045.2N 57.8W55 ktExtratropical
Aug 22, 12:0047.0N 55.2W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 22, 18:0049.2N 51.5W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 23, 00:0051.9N 47.0W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 23, 06:0054.7N 43.5W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 23, 12:0057.0N 41.0W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 23, 18:0058.4N 39.3W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 24, 00:0059.5N 37.0W45 ktExtratropical
Aug 24, 06:0060.1N 33.6W45 ktExtratropical
Aug 24, 12:0060.6N 31.0W40 ktExtratropical
Aug 24, 18:0060.9N 28.3W40 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1892

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.