The 1926 season

Unnamed hurricane (1926)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between July 29, 1926 and August 8, 1926, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1926 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
July 29, 1926 to August 8, 1926
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
25.2
Fastest the center moved
26 kt (30 mph)
Identifier
AL021926

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
Jul 29, 12:0016.0N 46.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 29, 18:0016.1N 47.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 30, 00:0016.2N 48.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 30, 06:0016.3N 49.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 30, 12:0016.5N 50.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 30, 18:0016.7N 50.9W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 31, 00:0016.9N 51.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0017.2N 52.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0017.5N 53.5W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0018.1N 54.4W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0019.0N 55.3W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0020.0N 56.2W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0021.0N 57.0W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0022.1N 57.6W70 ktHurricane
Aug 2, 00:0023.1N 58.2W80 ktHurricane
Aug 2, 06:0024.1N 58.7W90 ktHurricane
Aug 2, 12:0025.1N 59.2W100 ktHurricane
Aug 2, 18:0025.7N 59.7W100 ktHurricane
Aug 3, 00:0026.1N 60.2W100 ktHurricane
Aug 3, 06:0026.3N 60.6W100 ktHurricane
Aug 3, 12:0026.5N 61.0W100 ktHurricane
Aug 3, 18:0026.6N 61.2W100 ktHurricane
Aug 4, 00:0026.7N 61.3W100 ktHurricane
Aug 4, 06:0026.8N 61.4W100 ktHurricane
Aug 4, 12:0027.0N 61.5W100 ktHurricane
Aug 4, 18:0027.3N 61.8W100 ktHurricane
Aug 5, 00:0027.7N 62.2W100 ktHurricane
Aug 5, 06:0028.1N 62.6W105 ktHurricane
Aug 5, 12:0028.5N 63.0W105 ktHurricane
Aug 5, 18:0028.9N 63.5W105 ktHurricane
Aug 6, 00:0029.3N 64.1W105 ktHurricane
Aug 6, 06:0029.8N 64.8W100 ktHurricane
Aug 6, 12:0030.5N 65.5W95 ktHurricane
Aug 6, 18:0031.7N 66.0W95 ktHurricane
Aug 7, 00:0033.5N 66.1W90 ktHurricane
Aug 7, 06:0035.5N 66.2W90 ktHurricane
Aug 7, 12:0037.7N 66.2W85 ktHurricane
Aug 7, 18:0039.6N 65.6W85 ktHurricane
Aug 8, 00:0041.6N 64.5W80 ktHurricane
Aug 8, 06:0043.6N 62.9W70 ktExtratropical
Aug 8, 12:0045.8N 61.0W65 ktExtratropical
Aug 8, 18:0048.0N 59.0W55 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1926

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.