Unnamed hurricane (1949)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 23, 1949 to September 1, 1949

Peak strength

Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)

Lowest pressure

954 mb (28.17 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

14.1

Fastest the center moved

59 kt (68 mph)

Identifier

AL021949

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

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 177 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 11.11 inches (282 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1949Cat 295 kt · 963 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1949Tropical Storm40 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1949Cat 3110 kt · 974 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1949Tropical Storm50 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1949Cat 165 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1949Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1949Tropical Storm50 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1949Cat 170 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1949Cat 180 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1949Tropical Storm50 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1949Cat 180 kt · 995 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1949Tropical Storm50 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1949Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1949Tropical Storm55 kt · 993 mb

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: 1949 Florida hurricane