The 1927 season

Unnamed hurricane (1927)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between August 18, 1927 and August 29, 1927, with a lowest pressure of 950 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1927 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
August 18, 1927 to August 29, 1927
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
950 mb (28.05 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
21.6
Fastest the center moved
51 kt (59 mph)
Identifier
AL011927

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
Aug 18, 12:0014.0N 40.0W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0014.5N 41.5W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0015.0N 43.0W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0015.5N 44.5W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0016.0N 46.0W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0016.6N 47.5W65 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 00:0017.3N 49.0W70 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 06:0018.2N 50.5W75 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 12:0019.0N 52.0W80 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 18:0019.6N 53.6W85 ktHurricane
Aug 21, 00:0020.0N 55.3W90 ktHurricane
Aug 21, 06:0020.3N 57.1W100 ktHurricane
Aug 21, 12:0020.7N 59.0W105 ktHurricane
Aug 21, 18:0021.4N 61.1W110 ktHurricane
Aug 22, 00:0022.3N 63.3W110 ktHurricane
Aug 22, 06:0023.3N 65.7W110 kt950 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 12:0024.5N 67.7W110 ktHurricane
Aug 22, 18:0025.9N 69.5W110 ktHurricane
Aug 23, 00:0027.5N 71.0W110 ktHurricane
Aug 23, 06:0029.1N 72.3W110 ktHurricane
Aug 23, 12:0030.8N 73.0W110 ktHurricane
Aug 23, 18:0032.5N 73.2W110 ktHurricane
Aug 24, 00:0034.2N 72.9W105 ktHurricane
Aug 24, 06:0036.0N 72.3W100 ktHurricane
Aug 24, 12:0038.0N 71.5W95 ktHurricane
Aug 24, 18:0040.8N 69.0W90 ktHurricane
Aug 25, 00:0044.5N 65.0W85 ktExtratropical
Aug 25, 06:0048.5N 60.3W85 ktExtratropical
Aug 25, 12:0051.8N 54.8W80 ktExtratropical
Aug 25, 18:0054.4N 49.0W80 ktExtratropical
Aug 26, 00:0056.8N 43.5W80 ktExtratropical
Aug 26, 06:0058.6N 38.0W75 ktExtratropical
Aug 26, 12:0061.0N 32.3W70 ktExtratropical
Aug 26, 18:0062.5N 25.0W70 ktExtratropical
Aug 27, 00:0064.0N 17.5W65 ktExtratropical
Aug 27, 06:0065.3N 12.0W65 ktExtratropical
Aug 27, 12:0066.5N 10.0W60 ktExtratropical
Aug 27, 18:0067.7N 10.5W60 ktExtratropical
Aug 28, 00:0068.9N 11.0W55 ktExtratropical
Aug 28, 06:0070.0N 12.0W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 28, 12:0071.0N 13.0W45 ktExtratropical
Aug 28, 18:0071.5N 13.5W40 ktExtratropical
Aug 29, 00:0071.8N 13.0W35 ktExtratropical
Aug 29, 06:0071.9N 11.8W35 ktExtratropical
Aug 29, 12:0072.0N 10.0W30 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1927

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.