NHC AL011851 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1851
June 25, 1851 – June 28, 1851
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1851 storm peaked at Category 1 with 92 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 103 US cities, 24 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1851 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1851 (AL011851) from June 25, 1851 to June 28, 1851; its peak was 92 mph (Category 1). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on June 25 at 92 mph (Category 1), 15 miles from Seadrift, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 103 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 92 mph (Category 1) 15 miles from Seadrift, TX; the centre came closest to Skidmore, TX, 5 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 103
- At hurricane strength
- 24
- States
- 1
92 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1851 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (103)
- SeadriftCategory 1 · 15 mi
- Port LavacaCategory 1 · 30 mi
- PalaciosCategory 1 · 47 mi
- EdnaCategory 1 · 54 mi
- GanadoCategory 1 · 60 mi
- Bay CityCategory 1 · 64 mi
- FreeportCategory 1 · 67 mi
- BrazoriaCategory 1 · 70 mi
- Van VleckCategory 1 · 71 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 1 · 72 mi
- CluteCategory 1 · 72 mi
- SweenyCategory 1 · 73 mi
- InezCategory 1 · 48 mi
- RockportCategory 1 · 11 mi
- Port AransasCategory 1 · 27 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 1 · 21 mi
- InglesideCategory 1 · 25 mi
- VictoriaCategory 1 · 42 mi
- RefugioCategory 1 · 6 mi
- GregoryCategory 1 · 22 mi
- PortlandCategory 1 · 25 mi
- TaftCategory 1 · 19 mi
- Corpus ChristiCategory 1 · 37 mi
- YoakumCategory 1 · 70 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 16 mi
- GoliadTropical storm · 28 mi
- CueroTropical storm · 58 mi
- OdemTropical storm · 23 mi
- SkidmoreTropical storm · 5 mi
- BeevilleTropical storm · 7 mi
- Three RiversTropical storm · 8 mi
- George WestTropical storm · 8 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 16 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 19 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 28 mi
- KenedyTropical storm · 30 mi
- RobstownTropical storm · 36 mi
- Karnes CityTropical storm · 38 mi
- Falls CityTropical storm · 41 mi
- AliceTropical storm · 43 mi
- YorktownTropical storm · 48 mi
- BishopTropical storm · 49 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 50 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 57 mi
- StockdaleTropical storm · 60 mi
- NixonTropical storm · 66 mi
- PremontTropical storm · 69 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 36 mi
- FloresvilleTropical storm · 51 mi
- La VerniaTropical storm · 65 mi
- AdkinsTropical storm · 62 mi
- Saint HedwigTropical storm · 69 mi
- PleasantonTropical storm · 33 mi
- ElmendorfTropical storm · 52 mi
- JourdantonTropical storm · 24 mi
- PearsallTropical storm · 7 mi
- DilleyTropical storm · 7 mi
- CotullaTropical storm · 21 mi
- DevineTropical storm · 27 mi
- NataliaTropical storm · 32 mi
and 43 more
Other storms of the 1851 season
- Unnamed (AL041851)Category 3 · 735 cities
- Unnamed (AL061851)Tropical storm · 626 cities
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.