The 1901 season

Unnamed hurricane (1901)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between July 4, 1901 and July 13, 1901, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1901 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
July 4, 1901 to July 13, 1901
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.0
Identifier
AL031901

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
Jul 4, 00:009.5N 55.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 4, 06:0010.2N 55.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 4, 12:0011.0N 56.3W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 4, 18:0011.8N 57.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 5, 00:0012.5N 57.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 5, 06:0013.2N 58.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 5, 12:0013.7N 59.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 5, 18:0014.4N 60.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 6, 00:0015.0N 61.9W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 6, 06:0015.5N 63.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 6, 12:0015.9N 64.1W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 6, 18:0016.6N 65.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 7, 00:0017.4N 66.3W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 7, 06:0018.2N 67.6W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 7, 12:0019.0N 69.0W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 7, 18:0020.0N 70.2W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 00:0021.3N 71.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:0022.8N 72.2W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:0024.5N 73.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0026.4N 74.5W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0027.7N 75.8W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0029.0N 76.6W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0030.5N 76.7W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0031.8N 75.9W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0033.0N 75.1W65 ktHurricane
Jul 10, 06:0033.7N 74.2W70 ktHurricane
Jul 10, 12:0034.6N 73.8W70 ktHurricane
Jul 10, 18:0035.7N 73.8W70 ktHurricane
Jul 11, 00:0036.1N 74.6W70 ktHurricane
Jul 11, 06:0036.1N 75.6W70 ktHurricane
Jul 11, 07:00 landfall36.0N 75.8W70 ktHurricane
Jul 11, 12:0035.6N 76.2W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0035.3N 76.4W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0034.7N 76.6W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0034.2N 76.8W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0034.0N 77.1W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0033.9N 77.6W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 22:00 landfall34.0N 77.9W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0034.0N 78.1W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0034.2N 78.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0034.5N 79.5W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0034.8N 80.2W30 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1901

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.