The 1944 season

Unnamed hurricane (1944)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between July 13, 1944 and July 20, 1944.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1944 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 13, 1944 to July 20, 1944
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 77 km (48 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.8
Identifier
AL011944

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 13, 06:0019.6N 68.6W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 13, 12:0020.7N 69.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 13, 18:0021.5N 70.4W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 14, 00:0022.3N 71.2W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0023.1N 72.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0024.0N 72.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0025.1N 73.5W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0026.2N 74.1W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0027.4N 74.6W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0028.5N 75.0W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0029.4N 75.3W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0030.2N 75.5W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0030.9N 75.6W65 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 12:0031.4N 75.5W65 ktHurricane
Jul 16, 18:0031.8N 75.2W65 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 00:0032.2N 74.8W70 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 06:0032.5N 74.3W70 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 12:0032.8N 73.5W70 ktHurricane
Jul 17, 18:0033.1N 72.6W70 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 00:0033.3N 71.6W65 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 06:0033.6N 70.6W65 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 12:0034.0N 69.5W65 ktHurricane
Jul 18, 18:0035.0N 68.0W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0036.5N 65.5W60 ktExtratropical
Jul 19, 06:0038.2N 62.2W60 ktExtratropical
Jul 19, 12:0040.2N 58.2W60 ktExtratropical
Jul 19, 18:0042.2N 54.0W50 ktExtratropical
Jul 20, 00:0044.2N 49.8W45 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1944

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.