The 1899 season

Unnamed hurricane (1899)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between October 26, 1899 and November 4, 1899, 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
October 26, 1899 to November 4, 1899
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.4
Identifier
AL091899

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 26, 00:0016.2N 78.8W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0016.6N 78.9W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0017.0N 79.0W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0017.4N 79.1W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0017.8N 79.2W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0018.2N 79.3W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0018.5N 79.4W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0018.8N 79.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0019.1N 79.6W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0019.4N 79.7W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0020.0N 79.8W65 ktHurricane
Oct 28, 18:0020.6N 79.7W70 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 00:0021.3N 79.6W70 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 06:0022.1N 79.5W70 ktHurricane
Oct 29, 12:0022.9N 79.4W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0023.9N 79.0W65 ktHurricane
Oct 30, 00:0025.5N 78.6W75 ktHurricane
Oct 30, 06:0026.7N 78.3W85 ktHurricane
Oct 30, 12:0028.0N 78.0W95 ktHurricane
Oct 30, 18:0029.3N 78.3W95 ktHurricane
Oct 31, 00:0031.0N 78.6W95 ktHurricane
Oct 31, 06:0032.7N 78.9W95 ktHurricane
Oct 31, 09:00 landfall33.6N 79.0W95 ktHurricane
Oct 31, 12:0034.5N 79.0W75 ktHurricane
Oct 31, 18:0036.2N 78.3W55 ktTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0038.1N 77.1W50 ktExtratropical
Nov 1, 06:0040.1N 75.8W50 ktExtratropical
Nov 1, 12:0042.2N 73.9W45 ktExtratropical
Nov 1, 18:0043.8N 71.7W45 ktExtratropical
Nov 2, 00:0045.3N 68.9W40 ktExtratropical
Nov 2, 06:0046.6N 65.4W40 ktExtratropical
Nov 2, 12:0047.6N 61.2W40 ktExtratropical
Nov 2, 18:0048.4N 55.9W40 ktExtratropical
Nov 3, 00:0048.9N 49.7W45 ktExtratropical
Nov 3, 06:0049.5N 43.5W50 ktExtratropical
Nov 3, 12:0050.3N 38.0W50 ktExtratropical
Nov 3, 18:0051.3N 33.2W50 ktExtratropical
Nov 4, 00:0052.4N 28.5W45 ktExtratropical
Nov 4, 06:0053.6N 24.2W40 ktExtratropical
Nov 4, 12:0055.0N 20.2W40 ktExtratropical
Nov 4, 18:0057.8N 17.5W40 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.