The 1894 season

Unnamed hurricane (1894)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between August 30, 1894 and September 9, 1894, with a lowest pressure of 948 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1894 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 30, 1894 to September 9, 1894
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
948 mb (27.99 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 651 km (405 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
26.1
Identifier
AL031894

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 30, 00:0013.2N 34.8W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0013.4N 36.0W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0013.6N 37.5W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0013.8N 38.7W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0014.0N 39.9W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0014.2N 41.1W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0014.4N 42.3W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0014.7N 43.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0014.9N 44.7W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0015.2N 45.8W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0015.8N 47.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0016.5N 48.2W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0017.2N 49.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 2, 06:0017.9N 50.8W65 ktHurricane
Sep 2, 12:0018.6N 52.1W70 ktHurricane
Sep 2, 18:0019.3N 53.3W75 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 00:0020.0N 54.5W75 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 06:0020.7N 55.5W80 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 12:0021.4N 56.4W80 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 18:0022.1N 57.1W85 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 00:0022.7N 57.6W85 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 06:0023.4N 58.0W85 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 12:0024.0N 58.4W85 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 18:0024.7N 58.8W85 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 00:0025.4N 59.2W85 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 06:0026.1N 59.5W85 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 12:0026.8N 59.7W85 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 18:0027.6N 59.7W85 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 00:0028.4N 59.5W90 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 06:0029.3N 59.2W95 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 12:0030.1N 58.8W100 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 18:0030.9N 58.3W100 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 00:0031.8N 57.7W100 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 06:0032.7N 56.9W100 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 12:0033.6N 56.0W100 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 18:0034.7N 54.9W100 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 00:0036.2N 53.4W100 kt948 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 06:0038.0N 51.6W100 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0040.0N 49.6W100 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0042.3N 47.3W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0045.0N 44.5W80 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0048.0N 41.4W75 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0051.3N 38.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0054.0N 35.7W70 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1894

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.