The 1916 season

Unnamed hurricane (1916)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between September 13, 1916 and September 22, 1916.

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
September 13, 1916 to September 22, 1916
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 384 km (239 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.1
Identifier
AL101916

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 13, 12:0020.5N 56.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 13, 18:0020.7N 57.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 14, 00:0020.8N 58.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 14, 06:0020.9N 59.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0021.0N 60.7W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0021.1N 61.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0021.2N 62.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0021.3N 63.4W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0021.5N 64.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0022.0N 64.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0022.7N 63.9W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0023.7N 63.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0024.8N 63.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0026.0N 62.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0027.2N 62.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0028.5N 61.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0029.7N 61.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0030.7N 60.1W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0031.7N 58.9W65 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 06:0032.7N 57.4W70 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 12:0033.7N 55.9W75 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 18:0034.6N 54.6W75 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 00:0035.4N 53.2W75 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 06:0036.2N 51.9W75 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 12:0037.0N 50.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 18:0037.6N 49.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 00:0038.0N 47.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 06:0038.3N 46.0W65 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 12:0038.6N 44.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 18:0038.7N 43.1W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0038.7N 41.8W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0038.7N 40.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0038.7N 39.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0038.7N 38.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 22, 00:0038.7N 37.5W25 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.