The 1941 season

Unnamed hurricane (1941)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between September 18, 1941 and September 25, 1941, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

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 18, 1941 to September 25, 1941
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 128 km (80 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.2
Identifier
AL031941

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 18, 00:0026.8N 78.7W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 06:0027.8N 78.6W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 12:0028.5N 78.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 18:0029.0N 78.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 00:0029.1N 78.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0029.2N 77.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0029.3N 76.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0029.4N 74.8W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0029.6N 73.3W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0029.8N 71.8W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0029.9N 70.7W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0029.8N 70.6W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0029.7N 70.6W60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0029.5N 70.7W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0029.4N 70.8W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0029.5N 71.4W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0029.9N 72.4W65 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 06:0030.4N 73.3W70 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 12:0031.2N 73.8W70 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 18:0032.1N 73.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 00:0033.1N 73.6W70 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 06:0034.1N 73.4W65 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 12:0035.0N 72.8W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 18:0035.9N 71.7W65 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 00:0036.6N 70.7W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0037.2N 70.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0037.8N 69.5W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0038.4N 69.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0039.0N 68.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0039.6N 67.7W40 ktExtratropical
Sep 25, 12:0040.2N 66.9W35 ktExtratropical
Sep 25, 18:0041.0N 66.0W30 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.