The 1893 season

Unnamed hurricane (1893)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between June 12, 1893 and June 20, 1893, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1893 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 12, 1893 to June 20, 1893
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.3
Identifier
AL011893

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 12, 06:0020.5N 95.2W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0021.2N 94.7W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0021.7N 94.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 13, 00:0022.2N 93.9W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 13, 06:0022.7N 93.4W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 13, 12:0023.3N 92.7W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0024.0N 91.9W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0024.5N 91.2W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 14, 06:0025.2N 90.4W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 14, 12:0025.8N 89.7W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 14, 18:0026.2N 88.9W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 00:0026.6N 88.2W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 06:0027.0N 87.4W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 12:0027.7N 86.5W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 18:0028.6N 85.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 15, 23:00 landfall29.9N 83.7W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 16, 00:0030.1N 83.4W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 16, 06:0031.7N 81.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 16, 12:0033.1N 79.8W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 16, 18:0034.3N 78.4W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 00:0035.5N 77.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0036.6N 75.7W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0037.5N 74.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0038.3N 72.9W65 ktHurricane
Jun 18, 00:0039.0N 71.6W65 ktHurricane
Jun 18, 06:0039.8N 70.2W65 ktHurricane
Jun 18, 12:0040.5N 68.8W65 ktHurricane
Jun 18, 18:0041.2N 66.8W65 ktHurricane
Jun 19, 00:0042.0N 64.1W65 ktHurricane
Jun 19, 06:0042.7N 61.3W65 ktHurricane
Jun 19, 12:0043.4N 59.3W65 ktHurricane
Jun 19, 18:0044.0N 58.0W65 ktHurricane
Jun 20, 00:0044.5N 56.8W60 ktExtratropical
Jun 20, 06:0045.0N 55.8W60 ktExtratropical
Jun 20, 12:0045.4N 55.0W60 ktExtratropical
Jun 20, 18:0045.9N 54.0W60 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1893

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.