The 1924 season

Unnamed hurricane (1924)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between September 27, 1924 and October 1, 1924, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb, and made landfall.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 27, 1924 to October 1, 1924
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Identifier
AL081924

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 27, 00:0016.5N 86.0W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 27, 06:0017.0N 86.0W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 27, 12:0017.5N 86.1W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 27, 18:0018.0N 86.1W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 28, 00:0018.6N 86.1W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 28, 06:0019.2N 86.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 28, 12:0020.0N 86.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 28, 18:0021.3N 86.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0023.0N 86.2W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0025.0N 86.5W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0027.0N 86.6W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0029.0N 85.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 21:00 landfall30.0N 84.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0031.0N 83.0W55 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 06:0033.0N 80.7W55 kt1001 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 12:0035.0N 78.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 30, 18:0038.0N 75.5W65 ktExtratropical
Oct 1, 00:0042.5N 73.0W55 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1924

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.