The 1906 season

Unnamed hurricane (1906)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 19, 1906 and September 30, 1906, with a lowest pressure of 953 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1906 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 19, 1906 to September 30, 1906
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
953 mb (28.14 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
16.8
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
AL061906

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.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Sep 27, 11:00Pascagoula, MS, 19 km away30.2N 88.6W95 kt (109 mph)

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 19, 12:0012.0N 77.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 18:0012.1N 77.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 20, 00:0012.2N 77.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0012.3N 78.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0012.5N 78.7W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0012.8N 79.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0013.2N 79.7W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0013.6N 80.1W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0014.0N 80.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0014.6N 80.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0015.2N 81.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0015.8N 81.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0016.3N 82.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0016.9N 82.8W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0017.5N 83.2W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0018.1N 83.7W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0018.7N 84.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0019.3N 84.3W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0020.0N 84.6W65 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 06:0020.6N 84.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 12:0021.4N 85.1W75 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 18:0021.9N 85.2W80 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 00:0022.3N 85.5W85 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 06:0022.8N 85.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 12:0023.3N 86.0W95 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 18:0024.0N 86.3W100 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 00:0024.7N 86.6W105 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 06:0025.5N 86.8W105 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 12:0026.3N 87.0W105 kt953 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 18:0027.3N 87.4W100 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 00:0028.4N 87.9W100 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 06:0029.4N 88.4W95 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 11:00 landfall30.2N 88.6W95 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 12:0030.4N 88.7W95 kt958 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 18:0031.4N 89.0W65 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 00:0032.4N 89.3W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0033.6N 89.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0034.7N 89.9W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0035.6N 90.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0036.6N 90.4W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0037.3N 90.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 29, 12:0038.0N 90.3W30 ktExtratropical
Sep 29, 18:0038.2N 89.4W30 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 00:0038.0N 88.4W30 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 06:0037.3N 87.5W30 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1906

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.