Unnamed hurricane (1916)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 12, 1916 to August 20, 1916

Peak strength

Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)

Lowest pressure

932 mb (27.52 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

17.7

Fastest the center moved

20 kt (23 mph)

Identifier

AL061916

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.

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1916Tropical Storm50 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1916Cat 3105 kt · 950 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1916Cat 290 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1916Cat 3100 kt · 960 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1916Tropical Storm50 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1916Cat 295 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1916Cat 170 kt · 986 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1916Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1916Cat 175 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1916Cat 3105 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1916Tropical Storm50 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1916Cat 3105 kt · 963 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1916Cat 295 kt · 970 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1916Tropical Storm60 kt · 1002 mb

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: 1916 Texas hurricane