The 1894 season

Unnamed hurricane (1894)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 4 in the North Atlantic between October 11, 1894 and October 20, 1894, with a lowest pressure of 931 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
October 11, 1894 to October 20, 1894
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
931 mb (27.49 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 69 km (43 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
30.5
Identifier
AL061894

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
Oct 11, 00:0010.8N 57.7W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0011.3N 58.3W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0012.0N 59.0W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0012.6N 59.7W65 ktHurricane
Oct 12, 00:0013.2N 60.3W75 ktHurricane
Oct 12, 06:0013.8N 60.9W85 ktHurricane
Oct 12, 12:0014.5N 61.5W85 ktHurricane
Oct 12, 18:0014.9N 62.1W85 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 00:0015.4N 62.8W85 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 06:0015.9N 63.4W85 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 12:0016.7N 64.0W85 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 18:0017.5N 64.5W85 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 00:0018.1N 64.9W85 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 06:0018.7N 65.2W85 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 12:0019.3N 65.5W85 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 18:0020.2N 65.8W85 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 00:0020.9N 66.0W85 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 06:0021.7N 66.2W85 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 12:0022.5N 66.5W85 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 18:0023.1N 66.5W85 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 00:0023.7N 66.6W95 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 06:0024.3N 66.6W105 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 12:0025.0N 66.7W115 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 18:0026.1N 66.7W115 kt931 mbHurricane
Oct 17, 00:0027.4N 66.6W115 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 06:0028.2N 66.3W115 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 12:0029.0N 65.7W110 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 18:0030.0N 64.7W105 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 00:0031.1N 63.2W100 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 06:0032.3N 61.7W95 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 12:0033.3N 60.3W90 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 18:0034.1N 59.3W85 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 00:0034.8N 58.4W85 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 06:0035.4N 57.7W85 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 12:0036.0N 57.0W85 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 18:0036.7N 56.3W80 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 00:0037.3N 55.8W80 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 06:0037.7N 55.5W75 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 12:0038.0N 55.2W70 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 18:0038.4N 54.8W70 ktHurricane

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.