The 1941 season

Unnamed hurricane (1941)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between September 17, 1941 and September 27, 1941, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1941 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 17, 1941 to September 27, 1941
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
13.1
Fastest the center moved
42 kt (48 mph)
Identifier
AL021941

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.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Sep 23, 22:00Jones Creek, TX, 24 km away28.8N 95.6W110 kt (127 mph)

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 17, 12:0023.7N 88.0W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 17, 18:0024.6N 88.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 00:0025.3N 89.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 06:0025.7N 89.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0025.9N 89.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0026.0N 89.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0026.0N 89.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0025.8N 88.8W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0025.5N 88.6W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0025.2N 88.5W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0024.8N 88.4W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0024.5N 88.2W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0024.1N 88.0W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0023.6N 87.7W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0023.3N 87.9W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0023.8N 88.2W65 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 12:0024.4N 88.7W70 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 18:0024.8N 89.3W70 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 00:0025.1N 90.1W75 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 06:0025.4N 90.9W80 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 12:0025.9N 91.9W85 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 18:0026.3N 92.9W90 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 00:0026.7N 93.9W95 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 06:0027.2N 94.8W100 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 12:0027.7N 95.3W105 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 18:0028.3N 95.5W110 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 22:00 landfall28.8N 95.6W110 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 00:0029.0N 95.6W85 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 06:0029.8N 95.6W65 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 12:0031.5N 94.9W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0033.5N 93.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0036.0N 91.1W35 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0038.8N 88.7W35 kt988 mbExtratropical
Sep 25, 12:0042.4N 85.9W40 kt985 mbExtratropical
Sep 25, 18:0044.9N 82.6W50 ktExtratropical
Sep 26, 00:0047.6N 78.9W55 ktExtratropical
Sep 26, 06:0050.3N 74.7W50 ktExtratropical
Sep 26, 12:0053.0N 70.5W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 26, 18:0055.6N 67.5W45 ktExtratropical
Sep 27, 00:0058.2N 66.0W45 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1941

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.