Unnamed hurricane (1928)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 6, 1928 to September 21, 1928

Peak strength

Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)

Lowest pressure

929 mb (27.43 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

47.7

Fastest the center moved

20 kt (23 mph)

Identifier

AL041928

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1928Cat 290 kt · 971 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1928Cat 180 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1928Tropical Storm50 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1928Tropical Storm60 kt · 984 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1928Cat 180 kt

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: 1928 Okeechobee hurricane