The 1927 season

Unnamed hurricane (1927)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between September 22, 1927 and September 29, 1927.

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
September 22, 1927 to September 29, 1927
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1501 km (933 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.1
Identifier
AL031927

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 22, 12:0010.3N 36.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 22, 18:0010.8N 36.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 23, 00:0011.3N 37.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0011.8N 37.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0012.2N 38.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0012.6N 38.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0013.0N 39.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0013.4N 39.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0013.8N 40.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0014.2N 40.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0014.5N 41.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0014.9N 42.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0015.3N 43.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0015.7N 43.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0016.2N 44.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0016.8N 45.4W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0017.4N 46.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0018.2N 46.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0019.2N 46.4W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0020.3N 46.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0021.5N 46.5W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0023.0N 46.6W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0024.5N 46.9W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0026.0N 47.3W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0027.5N 47.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 18:0029.5N 47.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 29, 00:0031.7N 47.2W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0034.0N 46.8W50 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.