Hurricane Hazel (1954)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

October 5, 1954 to October 18, 1954

Peak strength

Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)

Lowest pressure

938 mb (27.70 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

33.4

Fastest the center moved

60 kt (69 mph)

Identifier

AL141954

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 1,613 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 11.22 inches (285 mm).

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

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1954Tropical Storm45 kt · 1005 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1954Tropical Storm60 kt
• Hurricane AliceNorth Atlantic · 1954Cat 295 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1954Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Storm BarbaraNorth Atlantic · 1954Tropical Storm50 kt · 999 mb
• Hurricane CarolNorth Atlantic · 1954Cat 3100 kt · 955 mb
• Hurricane DollyNorth Atlantic · 1954Cat 175 kt · 994 mb
• Hurricane EdnaNorth Atlantic · 1954Cat 3110 kt · 943 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1954Tropical Storm40 kt · 1004 mb
• Tropical Storm FlorenceNorth Atlantic · 1954Tropical Storm55 kt · 1001 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1954Tropical Storm40 kt · 1004 mb
• Tropical Storm GildaNorth Atlantic · 1954Tropical Storm60 kt · 998 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1954Cat 285 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1954Tropical Storm35 kt · 1005 mb
• Hurricane AliceNorth Atlantic · 1954Cat 180 kt · 991 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: Hurricane Hazel