The 1909 season

Unnamed hurricane (1909)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between June 25, 1909 and June 30, 1909, with a lowest pressure of 972 mb, and made landfall.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
June 25, 1909 to June 30, 1909
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
972 mb (28.70 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.6
Identifier
AL021909

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
Jun 25, 12:0025.0N 84.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 25, 18:0025.5N 84.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 26, 00:0025.9N 85.5W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 26, 06:0026.3N 86.2W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 26, 12:0026.7N 87.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 26, 18:0026.7N 87.7W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 27, 00:0026.6N 88.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 27, 06:0026.6N 89.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 27, 12:0026.5N 90.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 27, 18:0026.5N 90.9W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 28, 00:0026.4N 91.7W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 28, 06:0026.4N 92.5W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 28, 12:0026.3N 93.3W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 28, 18:0026.3N 94.1W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 29, 00:0026.2N 94.9W65 ktHurricane
Jun 29, 06:0026.2N 95.7W75 ktHurricane
Jun 29, 12:0026.1N 96.5W85 ktHurricane
Jun 29, 17:00 landfall26.1N 97.2W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Jun 29, 18:0026.1N 97.3W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Jun 30, 00:0026.0N 98.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 30, 06:0026.0N 98.6W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 30, 12:0026.0N 99.0W30 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1909

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.