The 1916 season

Unnamed hurricane (1916)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between July 10, 1916 and July 22, 1916, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1916 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
July 10, 1916 to July 22, 1916
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.8
Identifier
AL031916

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
Jul 10, 06:0011.5N 52.1W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 12:0011.5N 53.2W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 18:0011.6N 54.4W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 11, 00:0011.7N 55.6W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 11, 06:0011.8N 56.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 11, 12:0012.0N 57.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 11, 18:0012.4N 58.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 12, 00:0013.0N 59.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0013.7N 60.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0014.5N 61.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0015.4N 62.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0016.4N 63.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0017.5N 65.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0018.4N 66.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0019.1N 66.7W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0019.7N 67.2W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0020.3N 67.6W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0020.8N 68.0W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0021.3N 68.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0021.7N 68.5W65 ktHurricane
Jul 15, 06:0022.1N 68.6W70 ktHurricane
Jul 15, 12:0022.5N 68.7W75 ktHurricane
Jul 15, 18:0022.9N 68.8W75 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 00:0023.2N 69.0W80 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 06:0023.5N 69.2W85 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 12:0023.8N 69.5W90 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 18:0024.0N 70.0W90 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 00:0024.2N 70.5W90 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 06:0024.6N 71.0W90 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 12:0025.3N 71.5W90 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 18:0026.1N 71.9W90 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 00:0027.0N 72.2W90 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 06:0028.0N 72.5W85 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 12:0029.1N 72.8W85 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 18:0030.2N 73.0W80 ktHurricane
Jul 19, 00:0031.2N 73.2W80 ktHurricane
Jul 19, 06:0032.2N 73.3W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 12:0033.2N 73.3W75 ktHurricane
Jul 19, 18:0034.1N 73.1W75 ktHurricane
Jul 20, 00:0034.9N 72.9W75 ktHurricane
Jul 20, 06:0035.7N 72.7W75 ktHurricane
Jul 20, 12:0036.6N 72.5W75 ktHurricane
Jul 20, 18:0037.6N 72.3W75 ktHurricane
Jul 21, 00:0038.8N 72.1W70 ktHurricane
Jul 21, 06:0039.9N 71.8W65 ktHurricane
Jul 21, 12:0041.1N 71.4W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 13:00 landfall41.4N 71.2W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0043.0N 70.4W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0044.7N 68.4W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0046.9N 65.5W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0048.5N 61.7W30 ktExtratropical
Jul 22, 18:0051.0N 56.5W30 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1916

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.