The 1901 season

Unnamed hurricane (1901)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between August 29, 1901 and September 11, 1901.

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
August 29, 1901 to September 11, 1901
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 542 km (337 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
27.9
Identifier
AL071901

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
Aug 29, 06:0013.6N 22.4W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 29, 12:0013.7N 24.0W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0013.9N 25.9W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0014.1N 27.4W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0014.2N 28.8W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0014.3N 30.2W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0014.4N 31.5W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0014.5N 33.0W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0014.7N 34.5W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0015.0N 36.3W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0015.1N 37.7W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0015.4N 39.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0015.7N 40.4W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0016.3N 42.0W65 ktHurricane
Sep 1, 18:0016.8N 43.2W65 ktHurricane
Sep 2, 00:0017.4N 44.6W70 ktHurricane
Sep 2, 06:0018.0N 46.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 2, 12:0018.5N 47.5W75 ktHurricane
Sep 2, 18:0018.9N 48.8W75 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 00:0019.2N 50.1W80 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 06:0019.6N 51.4W80 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 12:0020.0N 52.7W85 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 18:0020.7N 54.2W85 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 00:0021.5N 55.6W90 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 06:0022.6N 57.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 12:0024.0N 58.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 18:0025.0N 58.4W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 00:0026.1N 58.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 06:0027.1N 58.9W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 12:0028.0N 59.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 18:0028.8N 59.1W90 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 00:0029.5N 59.2W90 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 06:0030.1N 59.1W90 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 12:0030.7N 59.0W85 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 18:0031.6N 58.6W85 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 00:0032.6N 57.8W85 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 06:0033.6N 57.0W85 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 12:0034.2N 56.1W85 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 18:0034.7N 55.3W85 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 00:0035.2N 54.0W85 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 06:0035.6N 52.0W80 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0035.8N 50.0W80 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0036.0N 47.5W80 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0036.0N 44.4W80 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0036.2N 41.3W80 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0037.0N 39.0W80 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0038.1N 37.4W75 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0039.5N 35.7W70 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0041.0N 33.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0043.0N 32.0W65 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 18:0044.4N 30.9W65 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 00:0045.8N 29.3W55 ktExtratropical
Sep 11, 06:0047.3N 27.7W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 11, 12:0048.6N 25.0W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 11, 18:0049.2N 20.0W35 ktExtratropical

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.