The 1934 season

Unnamed hurricane (1934)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between October 1, 1934 and October 4, 1934, with a lowest pressure of 984 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1934 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 1, 1934 to October 4, 1934
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
984 mb (29.06 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1600 km (994 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.5
Identifier
AL101934

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 1, 12:0026.1N 38.3W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 18:0027.3N 39.9W65 ktHurricane
Oct 2, 00:0028.3N 41.3W70 ktHurricane
Oct 2, 06:0029.0N 42.5W75 kt984 mbHurricane
Oct 2, 12:0029.5N 43.5W80 ktHurricane
Oct 2, 18:0029.9N 44.6W85 ktHurricane
Oct 3, 00:0030.2N 45.7W85 ktHurricane
Oct 3, 06:0030.5N 46.9W75 ktHurricane
Oct 3, 12:0031.0N 48.1W65 ktHurricane
Oct 3, 18:0031.5N 49.2W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0031.9N 50.2W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0032.3N 51.2W35 ktTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1934

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.