The 1906 season

Unnamed hurricane (1906)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between October 8, 1906 and October 23, 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
October 8, 1906 to October 23, 1906
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
953 mb (28.14 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
28.3
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
AL081906

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.

Landfalls

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 18, 10:00Marathon, FL, 2 km away24.7N 81.1W105 kt (121 mph)
Oct 18, 12:00Florida City, FL, 28 km away25.3N 80.7W105 kt (121 mph)953 mb
Oct 21, 09:00Nocatee, FL, 9 km away30.0N 81.4W50 kt (58 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
Oct 8, 06:0011.3N 76.4W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0011.3N 77.3W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0011.3N 78.3W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0011.3N 79.3W65 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 06:0011.3N 80.4W75 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 12:0011.5N 81.5W85 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 18:0011.7N 82.4W95 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 00:0012.1N 83.1W105 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 06:0012.6N 83.9W80 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 12:0013.0N 84.6W70 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 18:0013.2N 85.1W65 ktHurricane
Oct 11, 00:0013.4N 85.5W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0013.7N 85.9W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0014.0N 86.3W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0014.4N 86.7W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0014.7N 86.9W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0015.1N 87.1W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0015.5N 87.3W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0015.8N 87.4W65 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 00:0016.1N 87.6W65 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 06:0016.4N 87.8W70 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 12:0016.7N 88.0W75 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 18:0016.9N 88.1W80 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 00:0017.1N 88.2W70 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 06:0017.4N 88.3W65 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 12:0017.7N 88.3W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0017.9N 88.3W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0018.1N 88.2W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0018.3N 88.1W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0018.5N 88.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0018.8N 87.8W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0019.1N 87.6W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0019.3N 87.3W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0019.5N 87.0W70 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 18:0019.8N 86.3W80 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 00:0020.0N 85.7W90 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 06:0020.3N 85.1W100 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 12:0020.7N 84.0W105 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 18:0021.5N 82.7W105 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 00:0022.6N 82.1W105 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 06:0023.9N 81.6W105 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 10:00 landfall24.7N 81.1W105 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 12:00 landfall25.3N 80.7W105 kt953 mbHurricane
Oct 18, 18:0026.6N 79.5W95 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 00:0027.9N 78.6W90 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 06:0029.0N 78.1W85 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 12:0030.0N 78.0W80 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 18:0030.5N 78.0W80 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 00:0030.9N 78.0W75 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 06:0031.4N 78.1W75 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 12:0031.7N 78.3W70 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 18:0032.1N 79.3W70 ktHurricane
Oct 21, 00:0031.7N 80.4W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 21, 06:0030.7N 81.2W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 21, 09:00 landfall30.0N 81.4W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0029.5N 81.5W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0029.0N 81.5W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0028.3N 81.6W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 06:0027.3N 81.7W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 12:0026.0N 82.0W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 18:0024.9N 82.8W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 23, 00:0024.0N 83.8W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 23, 06:0023.1N 84.8W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 23, 12:0022.3N 85.7W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 23, 18:0021.5N 86.6W25 ktTropical depression

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.