The 1899 season

Unnamed hurricane (1899)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 3, 1899 and September 15, 1899, with a lowest pressure of 939 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1899 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 3, 1899 to September 15, 1899
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
939 mb (27.73 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
35.7
Identifier
AL051899

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 3, 00:0013.2N 38.4W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0013.2N 40.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0013.4N 42.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0013.8N 44.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0014.2N 45.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0014.5N 47.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0014.7N 48.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0014.9N 49.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0015.0N 49.7W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0015.1N 50.4W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0015.3N 51.1W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0015.5N 51.9W65 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 00:0015.8N 52.7W70 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 06:0016.0N 53.4W70 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 12:0016.2N 54.2W70 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 18:0016.4N 54.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 00:0016.5N 55.4W70 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 06:0016.6N 56.0W75 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 12:0016.8N 56.8W80 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 18:0017.0N 57.7W85 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 00:0017.2N 58.6W85 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 06:0017.3N 59.5W90 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0017.5N 60.5W95 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0018.0N 61.7W100 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0018.4N 62.6W100 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0018.9N 63.6W105 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0019.5N 64.5W105 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0020.0N 65.7W105 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0020.5N 66.8W105 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0021.1N 67.7W105 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0021.7N 68.7W105 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 18:0022.5N 69.4W105 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 00:0023.2N 69.6W105 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 06:0024.2N 69.8W105 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 12:0025.0N 70.0W105 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 18:0025.9N 69.8W105 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 00:0026.9N 69.6W105 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 06:0027.8N 69.0W105 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 12:0028.7N 68.3W105 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 18:0029.8N 67.3W105 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 00:0031.0N 66.0W105 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 06:0032.2N 64.6W105 kt939 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 12:0033.5N 63.2W105 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 18:0034.9N 61.9W100 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 00:0036.5N 60.5W95 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 06:0038.5N 58.8W90 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 12:0040.5N 57.0W85 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0043.1N 55.1W80 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0045.8N 53.5W75 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 06:0048.9N 52.5W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 15, 12:0052.0N 52.5W50 ktExtratropical
Sep 15, 18:0055.0N 53.0W40 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1899

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.