The 1911 season

Unnamed hurricane (1911)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between August 23, 1911 and August 31, 1911, with a lowest pressure of 972 mb, and made landfall.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
August 23, 1911 to August 31, 1911
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
972 mb (28.70 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.4
Identifier
AL031911

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
Aug 23, 06:0025.2N 65.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0025.5N 66.5W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0025.8N 67.4W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0026.1N 68.3W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0026.3N 69.2W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0026.5N 70.0W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0026.7N 70.7W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0026.9N 71.4W65 ktHurricane
Aug 25, 06:0027.2N 72.1W70 ktHurricane
Aug 25, 12:0027.5N 72.8W70 ktHurricane
Aug 25, 18:0028.0N 73.5W75 ktHurricane
Aug 26, 00:0028.7N 74.3W80 ktHurricane
Aug 26, 06:0029.6N 75.1W80 ktHurricane
Aug 26, 12:0030.1N 75.8W80 ktHurricane
Aug 26, 18:0030.5N 76.4W80 ktHurricane
Aug 27, 00:0030.8N 77.1W80 ktHurricane
Aug 27, 06:0031.1N 77.8W80 ktHurricane
Aug 27, 12:0031.5N 78.7W85 ktHurricane
Aug 27, 18:0031.8N 79.2W85 ktHurricane
Aug 28, 00:0032.0N 79.6W85 ktHurricane
Aug 28, 06:0032.1N 80.3W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 10:00 landfall32.2N 80.7W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 12:0032.2N 81.0W65 ktHurricane
Aug 28, 18:0032.3N 81.5W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0032.4N 82.0W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0032.3N 82.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0032.1N 83.0W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0032.0N 83.4W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 30, 00:0032.2N 83.7W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 30, 06:0033.0N 83.9W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 30, 12:0034.0N 84.0W30 ktExtratropical
Aug 30, 18:0034.8N 83.5W30 ktExtratropical
Aug 31, 00:0035.4N 82.5W25 ktExtratropical
Aug 31, 06:0035.8N 81.0W25 ktExtratropical
Aug 31, 12:0036.0N 79.5W20 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1911

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.