The 1894 season

Unnamed hurricane (1894)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between October 21, 1894 and October 31, 1894, with a lowest pressure of 955 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 21, 1894 to October 31, 1894
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Lowest pressure
955 mb (28.20 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 376 km (234 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
18.9
Identifier
AL071894

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 21, 06:0021.0N 60.3W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0021.5N 61.0W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0021.8N 61.7W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0022.1N 62.4W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 06:0022.4N 63.2W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0022.7N 64.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0022.8N 64.9W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0022.9N 65.9W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0023.2N 67.0W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0023.5N 68.1W65 ktHurricane
Oct 23, 18:0024.1N 69.5W65 ktHurricane
Oct 24, 00:0024.5N 70.6W70 ktHurricane
Oct 24, 06:0024.9N 71.8W75 ktHurricane
Oct 24, 12:0025.5N 73.0W75 ktHurricane
Oct 24, 18:0025.8N 73.5W80 ktHurricane
Oct 25, 00:0026.2N 74.2W85 ktHurricane
Oct 25, 06:0026.6N 74.3W85 ktHurricane
Oct 25, 12:0027.0N 74.0W85 ktHurricane
Oct 25, 18:0028.0N 72.6W85 ktHurricane
Oct 26, 00:0029.0N 71.0W85 ktHurricane
Oct 26, 06:0030.0N 69.5W85 ktHurricane
Oct 26, 12:0031.0N 68.0W85 ktHurricane
Oct 26, 18:0032.9N 65.4W85 ktHurricane
Oct 27, 00:0034.9N 62.4W85 ktHurricane
Oct 27, 06:0037.1N 59.4W85 ktHurricane
Oct 27, 12:0039.0N 57.0W85 ktHurricane
Oct 27, 18:0041.1N 54.4W85 ktHurricane
Oct 28, 00:0043.2N 51.5W90 ktHurricane
Oct 28, 06:0044.7N 48.7W90 ktHurricane
Oct 28, 12:0045.8N 45.8W95 ktHurricane
Oct 28, 18:0046.4N 44.1W95 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 00:0047.0N 42.6W95 kt955 mbHurricane
Oct 29, 06:0047.6N 41.3W90 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 12:0048.1N 40.0W85 ktExtratropical
Oct 29, 18:0048.6N 38.8W85 ktExtratropical
Oct 30, 00:0049.0N 37.6W85 ktExtratropical
Oct 30, 06:0049.4N 36.3W80 ktExtratropical
Oct 30, 12:0049.9N 35.0W80 ktExtratropical
Oct 30, 18:0050.5N 33.4W75 ktExtratropical
Oct 31, 00:0051.3N 31.5W70 ktExtratropical
Oct 31, 06:0052.1N 29.3W65 ktExtratropical
Oct 31, 12:0053.0N 27.0W65 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.