The 1914 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1914)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between September 15, 1914 and September 19, 1914, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 15, 1914 to September 19, 1914
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Identifier
AL011914

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 15, 00:0025.2N 76.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 15, 06:0025.9N 76.7W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 15, 12:0026.5N 77.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0027.0N 77.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0027.5N 77.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0028.0N 78.1W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0028.5N 78.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0029.1N 79.2W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0029.8N 80.1W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0030.5N 81.2W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 07:00 landfall30.6N 81.4W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0031.0N 82.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0031.2N 83.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0031.1N 85.4W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0030.5N 87.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0030.2N 88.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0030.1N 90.6W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 00:0030.0N 92.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 06:0030.0N 93.7W25 ktTropical depression

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.