The 1901 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1901)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between September 21, 1901 and October 2, 1901, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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 21, 1901 to October 2, 1901
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.2
Identifier
AL101901

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 21, 00:0013.7N 73.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0013.8N 74.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0014.0N 75.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0014.2N 75.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0014.4N 76.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0014.7N 78.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0015.0N 79.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0015.2N 79.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0015.5N 80.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0015.9N 81.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0016.5N 82.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0016.9N 82.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0017.4N 82.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0018.0N 82.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0018.5N 83.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0018.8N 83.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0019.2N 83.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0019.6N 83.4W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0020.0N 83.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0020.3N 83.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0020.7N 83.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0021.1N 83.9W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0021.5N 84.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0022.1N 84.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0023.2N 84.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0024.3N 84.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0025.5N 85.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0027.0N 84.9W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0028.8N 84.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 03:00 landfall29.9N 84.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0030.6N 84.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0032.5N 84.0W35 ktExtratropical
Sep 28, 18:0035.1N 82.7W35 ktExtratropical
Sep 29, 00:0037.8N 81.4W30 ktExtratropical
Sep 29, 06:0040.3N 80.1W25 ktExtratropical
Sep 29, 12:0042.5N 78.6W25 ktExtratropical
Sep 29, 18:0044.2N 76.5W25 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 00:0045.7N 74.5W25 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 06:0047.0N 72.5W25 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 12:0048.0N 68.5W25 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 18:0048.2N 63.9W30 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 00:0048.2N 60.1W30 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 06:0048.3N 55.9W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 12:0048.5N 51.5W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 18:0049.0N 46.1W40 ktExtratropical
Oct 2, 00:0050.8N 39.4W40 ktExtratropical
Oct 2, 06:0053.1N 32.6W45 ktExtratropical
Oct 2, 12:0055.3N 27.0W45 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.