The 1926 season

Unnamed hurricane (1926)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between September 10, 1926 and September 14, 1926.

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
September 10, 1926 to September 14, 1926
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1414 km (879 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.0
Identifier
AL051926

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 10, 06:0025.6N 54.3W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0026.0N 54.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 18:0026.4N 54.7W70 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 00:0026.8N 54.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 06:0027.3N 55.0W75 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 12:0027.9N 55.1W75 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 18:0028.7N 55.2W80 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 00:0029.5N 55.3W85 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 06:0030.3N 55.3W90 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 12:0031.0N 55.3W90 ktHurricane
Sep 12, 18:0031.4N 55.2W90 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 00:0031.8N 55.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 06:0032.2N 54.8W80 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 12:0032.5N 54.5W80 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 18:0032.7N 54.1W70 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 00:0032.7N 53.7W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0032.5N 53.2W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0032.1N 52.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0031.7N 52.2W30 ktTropical depression

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.