The 1894 season

Unnamed hurricane (1894)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 18, 1894 and October 4, 1894, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

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
September 18, 1894 to October 4, 1894
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
28.7
Identifier
AL041894

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 18, 00:0013.4N 50.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0013.4N 51.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0013.5N 51.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0013.6N 52.6W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0013.7N 53.5W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0013.9N 54.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 12:0014.0N 55.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 18:0014.1N 56.3W80 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 00:0014.3N 57.5W85 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 06:0014.5N 58.6W90 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 12:0014.7N 59.7W95 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 18:0014.9N 61.1W100 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 00:0015.3N 62.7W105 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 06:0015.8N 64.2W105 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 12:0016.2N 65.5W105 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 18:0016.6N 66.7W105 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 00:0017.0N 67.9W100 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 06:0017.6N 69.3W95 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 12:0018.3N 71.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 18:0018.8N 72.7W75 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 00:0019.4N 74.3W80 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 06:0019.9N 75.8W85 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 12:0020.5N 77.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 18:0020.9N 78.2W70 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 00:0021.4N 79.4W70 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 06:0021.8N 80.6W70 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 12:0022.5N 81.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 18:0022.9N 81.7W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0023.4N 81.9W65 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 06:0024.0N 82.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 11:00 landfall24.7N 82.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 12:0025.0N 82.0W80 kt985 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 18:0026.3N 82.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 19:00 landfall26.5N 82.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 00:0027.6N 81.7W75 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 06:0028.6N 81.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0029.5N 81.2W65 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 18:0030.4N 81.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 00:0031.2N 80.9W75 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 06:0032.0N 80.7W80 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 07:00 landfall32.3N 80.7W80 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 12:0033.0N 80.3W70 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 18:0033.7N 79.4W65 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 00:0034.0N 78.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0034.4N 77.6W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:00 landfall34.7N 76.7W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0035.2N 76.3W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0035.8N 75.8W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0036.5N 75.4W70 ktHurricane
Sep 29, 12:0037.0N 75.0W75 ktHurricane
Sep 29, 18:0037.5N 74.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 30, 00:0038.4N 73.9W65 ktHurricane
Sep 30, 06:0039.2N 73.2W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0039.7N 72.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0040.2N 71.5W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0040.7N 70.0W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0041.2N 67.6W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 12:0039.2N 66.0WExtratropical
Oct 1, 18:0039.7N 62.9WExtratropical
Oct 2, 00:0040.1N 60.7WExtratropical
Oct 2, 06:0040.6N 58.1WExtratropical
Oct 2, 12:0041.0N 55.5WExtratropical
Oct 2, 18:0043.1N 52.7WExtratropical
Oct 3, 00:0045.2N 50.0WExtratropical
Oct 3, 06:0048.8N 44.3WExtratropical
Oct 3, 12:0052.5N 39.5WExtratropical
Oct 3, 18:0053.5N 38.3WExtratropical
Oct 4, 00:0054.5N 37.2WExtratropical
Oct 4, 06:0055.5N 36.1WExtratropical
Oct 4, 12:0056.5N 35.0WExtratropical

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.