The 1908 season

Unnamed hurricane (1908)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 7, 1908 and September 19, 1908, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 7, 1908 to September 19, 1908
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
28.0
Identifier
AL061908

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 7, 12:0015.4N 51.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0015.9N 52.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0016.3N 53.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0016.7N 54.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0017.0N 55.8W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0017.2N 56.6W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0017.4N 57.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0017.6N 58.0W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0018.0N 59.5W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0018.3N 60.5W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0018.7N 63.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0019.0N 65.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0019.4N 66.8W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0019.7N 68.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0019.8N 69.2W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0020.1N 70.7W65 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 12:0020.5N 72.0W75 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 18:0021.0N 72.9W85 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 00:0021.5N 73.7W95 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 06:0021.9N 74.3W95 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 12:0022.5N 75.0W100 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 18:0022.9N 75.5W100 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 00:0023.2N 75.8W105 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 06:0023.8N 76.1W105 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 12:0024.5N 76.1W105 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 18:0025.1N 75.9W105 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 00:0025.7N 75.5W105 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 06:0026.2N 75.1W105 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 12:0026.7N 74.5W105 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0027.5N 73.6W100 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0028.4N 72.6W100 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 06:0029.1N 71.8W95 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 12:0030.0N 71.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 18:0030.8N 70.2W85 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 00:0031.6N 69.4W85 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 06:0032.5N 68.6W80 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 12:0033.8N 67.7W80 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 18:0035.1N 67.2W75 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 00:0036.3N 66.8W75 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 06:0037.8N 66.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 12:0039.3N 65.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 18:0040.4N 63.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 00:0041.1N 62.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 06:0041.9N 61.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 12:0043.0N 60.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 18:0045.4N 57.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0048.6N 53.0W55 ktExtratropical
Sep 19, 06:0051.5N 49.6W55 ktExtratropical
Sep 19, 12:0054.0N 46.5W50 ktExtratropical
Sep 19, 18:0056.2N 43.8W50 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.