The 1908 season

Unnamed hurricane (1908)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between July 24, 1908 and August 3, 1908, and made landfall.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
July 24, 1908 to August 3, 1908
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.1
Identifier
AL031908

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
Jul 24, 12:0027.5N 75.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 24, 18:0027.8N 75.2W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 25, 00:0028.1N 75.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 25, 06:0028.4N 75.9W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 25, 12:0028.7N 76.3W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0028.9N 76.6W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0029.0N 76.9W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0029.0N 77.2W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0029.0N 77.5W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0028.9N 77.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0028.7N 78.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0028.3N 78.3W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0027.7N 78.5W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0027.3N 78.3W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0027.1N 77.7W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0027.1N 77.2W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0027.3N 77.0W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0027.7N 77.0W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0028.0N 77.5W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0028.2N 77.9W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0028.5N 78.0W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0029.4N 78.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0030.4N 78.3W65 ktHurricane
Jul 30, 06:0031.4N 78.2W70 ktHurricane
Jul 30, 12:0032.5N 78.0W70 ktHurricane
Jul 30, 18:0033.1N 77.9W70 ktHurricane
Jul 31, 00:0033.7N 77.6W70 ktHurricane
Jul 31, 06:0034.2N 77.4W70 ktHurricane
Jul 31, 11:00 landfall34.6N 77.1W70 ktHurricane
Jul 31, 12:0034.7N 77.0W70 ktHurricane
Jul 31, 18:0035.2N 75.8W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0035.6N 74.1W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0036.1N 72.8W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0036.5N 71.7W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0037.2N 70.0W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0037.8N 68.5W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0038.7N 66.9W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0040.0N 65.5W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0041.7N 63.0W60 ktExtratropical
Aug 3, 00:0044.0N 60.6W60 ktExtratropical
Aug 3, 06:0046.3N 58.5W55 ktExtratropical
Aug 3, 12:0048.5N 56.5W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 3, 18:0050.6N 54.3W50 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1908

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.