The 1901 season

Unnamed hurricane (1901)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between September 9, 1901 and September 19, 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
September 9, 1901 to September 19, 1901
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.3
Identifier
AL081901

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 9, 06:0017.6N 50.7W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0017.5N 52.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0017.5N 53.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0017.4N 54.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0017.4N 56.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0017.3N 57.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0017.4N 58.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0017.5N 60.1W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0017.6N 61.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0017.8N 62.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0018.1N 64.3W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0018.4N 65.6W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0018.5N 66.9W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0018.6N 68.2W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0018.7N 69.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0018.8N 71.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0018.9N 72.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0019.0N 74.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0019.1N 75.7W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0019.2N 77.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0019.4N 78.3W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0019.7N 79.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0020.1N 80.6W65 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0020.5N 81.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 06:0021.0N 83.3W70 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 12:0021.5N 84.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 18:0022.0N 85.6W65 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 00:0022.6N 86.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0023.3N 87.3W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0024.3N 88.0W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0025.3N 88.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0026.5N 88.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0027.7N 88.1W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0029.0N 87.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0030.3N 86.7W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 20:00 landfall30.4N 86.6W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0031.6N 85.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0032.5N 83.4W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0033.0N 81.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0034.2N 77.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0035.8N 74.2W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 19, 06:0037.1N 72.5W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 19, 12:0038.7N 70.0W50 ktExtratropical
Sep 19, 18:0040.5N 67.2W50 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.