The 1941 season

Unnamed hurricane (1941)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 4 in the North Atlantic between September 23, 1941 and September 30, 1941, 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 23, 1941 to September 30, 1941
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.6
Identifier
AL041941

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 23, 18:0013.7N 60.3W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 00:0013.7N 61.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0013.8N 63.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0013.8N 65.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0013.8N 66.3W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0013.9N 67.6W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0014.0N 68.9W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0014.0N 70.2W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0014.0N 71.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 00:0014.1N 72.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 06:0014.2N 74.3W75 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 12:0014.2N 75.6W80 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 18:0014.3N 76.9W90 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 00:0014.3N 78.2W95 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 06:0014.4N 79.6W105 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 12:0014.5N 81.0W115 ktHurricane
Sep 27, 18:0014.7N 82.5W115 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 00:0015.0N 84.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 06:0015.4N 85.3W75 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 12:0015.8N 86.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 28, 18:0016.3N 87.7W75 ktHurricane
Sep 29, 00:0016.7N 89.1W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0017.1N 90.6W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0017.5N 92.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0018.0N 93.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0018.6N 93.8W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 30, 06:0019.3N 94.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 30, 12:0020.0N 95.0W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 30, 18:0020.8N 95.3W25 ktTropical depression

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.