The 1926 season

Unnamed hurricane (1926)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 4 in the North Atlantic between October 14, 1926 and October 28, 1926, with a lowest pressure of 934 mb, 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
October 14, 1926 to October 28, 1926
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
934 mb (27.58 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
35.3
Fastest the center moved
27 kt (31 mph)
Identifier
AL101926

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 14, 06:0011.5N 81.2W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 14, 12:0011.5N 81.0W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 14, 18:0011.6N 80.9W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 15, 00:0011.7N 80.8W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0011.8N 80.7W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0012.0N 80.7W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0012.1N 80.6W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0012.2N 80.6W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0012.4N 80.5W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0012.6N 80.5W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0012.9N 80.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0013.2N 80.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0013.5N 80.6W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0013.9N 80.7W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0014.3N 80.9W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 00:0014.8N 81.2W65 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 06:0015.3N 81.5W70 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 12:0015.8N 81.8W75 ktHurricane
Oct 18, 18:0016.5N 82.3W80 kt974 mbHurricane
Oct 19, 00:0017.3N 82.7W95 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 06:0018.2N 83.0W115 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 12:0019.1N 82.9W120 ktHurricane
Oct 19, 18:0019.8N 82.9W120 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 00:0020.5N 82.9W125 ktHurricane
Oct 20, 06:0021.3N 82.8W125 kt939 mbHurricane
Oct 20, 12:0022.3N 82.7W130 kt934 mbHurricane
Oct 20, 18:0023.4N 82.1W120 kt942 mbHurricane
Oct 21, 00:0024.5N 81.0W110 kt949 mbHurricane
Oct 21, 06:0025.6N 79.7W110 ktHurricane
Oct 21, 12:0026.9N 78.0W110 ktHurricane
Oct 21, 18:0028.0N 75.5W110 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 00:0029.1N 73.0W110 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 06:0030.1N 70.3W110 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 12:0031.2N 67.5W105 ktHurricane
Oct 22, 18:0032.4N 64.7W105 kt962 mbHurricane
Oct 23, 00:0033.8N 62.2W95 ktHurricane
Oct 23, 06:0035.1N 59.7W85 ktHurricane
Oct 23, 12:0036.0N 57.2W75 ktHurricane
Oct 23, 18:0036.4N 54.7W70 ktHurricane
Oct 24, 00:0036.6N 52.2W70 ktHurricane
Oct 24, 06:0036.8N 50.0W70 ktHurricane
Oct 24, 12:0037.0N 48.0W70 ktHurricane
Oct 24, 18:0037.2N 46.5W70 ktHurricane
Oct 25, 00:0037.3N 45.5W75 ktHurricane
Oct 25, 06:0037.4N 44.8W75 ktHurricane
Oct 25, 12:0037.3N 44.5W80 ktHurricane
Oct 25, 18:0036.8N 44.2W80 ktHurricane
Oct 26, 00:0035.6N 44.6W75 ktHurricane
Oct 26, 06:0034.0N 45.6W65 ktHurricane
Oct 26, 12:0032.5N 47.0W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0031.3N 48.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0030.3N 50.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0029.5N 51.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0029.0N 53.0W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0028.8N 54.2W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0029.0N 55.0W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0029.7N 55.5W40 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.