The 1921 season

Unnamed hurricane (1921)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 6, 1921 and September 17, 1921, with a lowest pressure of 959 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 6, 1921 to September 17, 1921
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
959 mb (28.32 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
35.2
Identifier
AL031921

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 6, 00:0010.0N 40.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0010.0N 42.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0010.0N 44.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0010.1N 46.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0010.2N 48.1W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0010.3N 50.3W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0010.4N 52.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0010.5N 54.3W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0010.6N 55.9W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0010.7N 57.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0011.0N 59.0W70 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0011.6N 60.4W80 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0012.4N 61.8W90 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0013.2N 63.2W95 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0014.0N 64.5W100 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0014.6N 65.5W100 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0015.1N 66.3W100 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0015.7N 67.0W100 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0016.3N 67.6W100 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 18:0016.9N 68.0W100 kt961 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 00:0017.6N 68.3W110 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 06:0018.3N 68.5W110 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 12:0019.0N 68.6W90 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 18:0019.8N 68.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 00:0020.7N 68.8W95 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 06:0021.6N 69.0W95 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 12:0022.5N 69.2W95 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 18:0023.5N 69.2W95 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 00:0024.7N 69.3W100 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 06:0025.9N 69.4W100 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 12:0027.0N 69.5W105 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 18:0027.7N 69.5W105 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 00:0028.3N 69.5W105 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 06:0028.9N 69.5W105 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 12:0029.5N 69.2W105 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0030.2N 68.7W105 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0030.9N 67.8W100 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 06:0031.6N 66.6W100 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 12:0032.3N 65.1W95 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 18:0033.3N 63.3W95 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 00:0034.6N 61.2W90 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 06:0036.3N 58.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 12:0038.5N 55.5W90 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 18:0041.2N 52.3W85 kt964 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 00:0044.5N 49.2W80 kt962 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 06:0048.0N 46.1W75 kt959 mbExtratropical
Sep 17, 12:0052.0N 43.0W70 ktExtratropical
Sep 17, 18:0056.5N 40.0W65 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1921

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.