The 1936 season

Unnamed hurricane (1936)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between July 27, 1936 and August 1, 1936, with a lowest pressure of 964 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1936 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
July 27, 1936 to August 1, 1936
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
964 mb (28.47 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.7
Identifier
AL051936

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
Jul 27, 06:0023.6N 74.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 27, 12:0023.8N 74.9W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 27, 18:0024.0N 75.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0024.2N 76.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0024.4N 77.7W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0024.7N 78.7W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0024.9N 79.4W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0025.2N 80.1W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 02:00 landfall25.3N 80.3W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0025.6N 81.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0026.0N 81.9W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0026.4N 82.8W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0026.8N 83.6W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0027.3N 84.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0027.8N 85.0W65 ktHurricane
Jul 30, 18:0028.3N 85.5W70 ktHurricane
Jul 31, 00:0028.9N 85.9W80 ktHurricane
Jul 31, 06:0029.5N 86.2W85 ktHurricane
Jul 31, 12:0030.1N 86.5W90 kt964 mbHurricane
Jul 31, 14:00 landfall30.4N 86.6W90 kt964 mbHurricane
Jul 31, 18:0030.8N 86.9W70 ktHurricane
Aug 1, 00:0031.4N 87.3W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0031.8N 87.7W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0032.0N 88.0W30 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1936

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.