The 1916 season

Unnamed hurricane (1916)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between October 9, 1916 and October 19, 1916, with a lowest pressure of 970 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
October 9, 1916 to October 19, 1916
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
15.2
Identifier
AL141916

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
Oct 9, 06:0018.5N 75.6W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 9, 12:0018.0N 76.0W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 9, 18:0017.6N 76.4W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 10, 00:0017.2N 76.8W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 10, 06:0016.8N 77.2W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 10, 12:0016.5N 77.5W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 10, 18:0016.3N 77.8W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 11, 00:0016.1N 78.0W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 11, 06:0016.0N 78.2W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 11, 12:0016.0N 78.5W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 11, 18:0016.1N 78.8W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 12, 00:0016.3N 79.0W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0016.4N 79.2W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0016.5N 79.5W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0016.5N 79.7W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0016.5N 79.9W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0016.5N 80.1W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0016.5N 80.5W65 ktHurricane
Oct 13, 18:0016.5N 81.1W75 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 00:0016.5N 81.8W85 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 06:0016.7N 82.7W95 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 12:0017.0N 83.6W95 ktHurricane
Oct 14, 18:0017.3N 84.5W95 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 00:0017.7N 85.4W95 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 06:0018.1N 86.3W95 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 12:0018.6N 87.2W95 ktHurricane
Oct 15, 18:0019.1N 88.2W65 ktHurricane
Oct 16, 00:0019.7N 89.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0020.3N 89.9W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0021.0N 90.5W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0021.7N 90.7W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0022.4N 90.8W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0023.2N 90.6W70 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 12:0024.0N 90.3W80 ktHurricane
Oct 17, 18:0025.2N 89.7W85 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 00:0026.5N 89.0W90 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 06:0027.9N 88.2W95 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 12:0029.6N 87.5W95 kt970 mbHurricane
Oct 18, 14:00 landfall30.4N 87.4W95 kt970 mbHurricane
Oct 18, 18:0031.6N 87.2W65 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 00:0033.9N 87.6W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 19, 06:0036.2N 88.2W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 19, 12:0038.5N 89.0W25 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.