Hurricane King (1950)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

October 13, 1950 to October 20, 1950

Peak strength

Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)

Lowest pressure

955 mb (28.20 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

9.7

Eyewall radius at its peak

5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)

Fastest the center moved

16 kt (18 mph)

Identifier

AL111950

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 186 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 15.44 inches (392 mm).

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

• Hurricane AbleNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 3110 kt · 953 mb
• Hurricane BakerNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 290 kt · 979 mb
• Hurricane CharlieNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 295 kt · 974 mb
• Hurricane DogNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 4125 kt · 953 mb
• Hurricane EasyNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 3105 kt · 960 mb
• Hurricane FoxNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 4120 kt · 946 mb
• Hurricane GeorgeNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 295 kt · 960 mb
• Tropical Storm HowNorth Atlantic · 1950Tropical Storm40 kt
• Hurricane ItemNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 290 kt · 980 mb
• Hurricane JigNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 3100 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1950Tropical Storm60 kt
• Hurricane LoveNorth Atlantic · 1950Cat 170 kt · 987 mb
• Tropical Storm MikeNorth Atlantic · 1950Tropical Storm40 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1950Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1950Tropical Storm60 kt

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: Hurricane King