The 1911 season

Unnamed hurricane (1911)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between September 3, 1911 and September 12, 1911, and made landfall.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 3, 1911 to September 12, 1911
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.0
Identifier
AL041911

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 3, 12:0012.0N 57.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 3, 18:0012.2N 58.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 4, 00:0012.4N 59.8W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 4, 06:0012.6N 61.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 4, 12:0012.8N 62.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0012.9N 63.7W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0013.0N 64.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0013.0N 65.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0013.0N 67.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0013.0N 68.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0013.0N 69.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0013.0N 70.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0013.0N 71.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0012.9N 71.8W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0012.8N 72.4W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0012.7N 73.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0012.5N 73.5W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0012.3N 74.1W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0012.2N 74.7W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0012.1N 75.3W65 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0012.0N 76.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0012.0N 76.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0012.1N 77.7W75 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0012.2N 78.7W80 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0012.3N 79.7W85 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0012.4N 80.9W85 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0012.6N 82.2W85 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0012.8N 83.4W85 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0013.0N 84.6W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0013.2N 85.7W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0013.3N 86.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0013.4N 87.9W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0013.4N 89.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0013.6N 90.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0013.8N 91.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0014.0N 93.1W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0014.0N 93.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 12, 18:0014.1N 94.0W30 ktTropical depression

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.