The 1909 season

Unnamed hurricane (1909)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between November 8, 1909 and November 14, 1909, and made landfall.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
November 8, 1909 to November 14, 1909
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.9
Fastest the center moved
23 kt (26 mph)
Identifier
AL121909

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
Nov 8, 12:0010.5N 81.0W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 18:0010.7N 80.8W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 9, 00:0010.9N 80.6W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 9, 06:0011.1N 80.4W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 9, 12:0011.3N 80.2W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 9, 18:0011.6N 80.0W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 10, 00:0012.1N 79.7W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 10, 06:0012.7N 79.4W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 10, 12:0013.3N 79.1W40 ktTropical storm
Nov 10, 18:0013.9N 78.8W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 11, 00:0014.5N 78.5W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 11, 06:0015.1N 78.0W50 ktTropical storm
Nov 11, 12:0015.7N 77.4W50 ktTropical storm
Nov 11, 18:0016.5N 76.7W55 ktTropical storm
Nov 12, 00:0017.4N 76.0W60 ktTropical storm
Nov 12, 06:0018.2N 75.3W65 ktHurricane
Nov 12, 12:0019.0N 74.5W70 ktHurricane
Nov 12, 18:0019.6N 73.5W75 ktHurricane
Nov 13, 00:0020.1N 72.1W80 ktHurricane
Nov 13, 06:0020.6N 70.4W85 ktHurricane
Nov 13, 12:0021.0N 68.5W90 ktHurricane
Nov 13, 18:0021.3N 66.3W90 ktHurricane
Nov 14, 00:0021.4N 64.0W90 ktHurricane
Nov 14, 06:0021.5N 61.5W85 ktHurricane
Nov 14, 12:0021.5N 59.0W80 ktHurricane
Nov 14, 18:0021.5N 56.5W75 ktHurricane

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.