NHC AL011866 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1866
July 11, 1866 – July 16, 1866
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1866 storm peaked at Category 2 with 104 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 86 US cities, 36 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1866 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1866 (AL011866) from July 11, 1866 to July 16, 1866; its peak was 104 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on July 15 at 104 mph (Category 2), 11 miles from Port Lavaca, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 86 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 104 mph (Category 2) 16 miles from Palacios, TX; the centre came closest to Port Lavaca, TX, 6 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 86
- At hurricane strength
- 36
- States
- 1
104 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1866 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (86)
- PalaciosCategory 2 · 16 mi
- Bay CityCategory 2 · 31 mi
- Van VleckCategory 2 · 37 mi
- BrazoriaCategory 2 · 38 mi
- FreeportCategory 2 · 39 mi
- SweenyCategory 2 · 40 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 2 · 42 mi
- CluteCategory 2 · 42 mi
- West ColumbiaCategory 2 · 47 mi
- El CampoCategory 2 · 48 mi
- AngletonCategory 2 · 51 mi
- BolingCategory 2 · 52 mi
- DanburyCategory 2 · 56 mi
- WhartonCategory 2 · 56 mi
- NeedvilleCategory 2 · 62 mi
- GalvestonCategory 2 · 65 mi
- HitchcockCategory 2 · 67 mi
- BeasleyCategory 2 · 68 mi
- RosharonCategory 2 · 68 mi
- Santa FeCategory 2 · 68 mi
- La MarqueCategory 2 · 69 mi
- AlvinCategory 2 · 69 mi
- East BernardCategory 2 · 70 mi
- Texas CityCategory 2 · 71 mi
- RosenbergCategory 2 · 73 mi
- ManvelCategory 2 · 73 mi
- Eagle LakeCategory 2 · 74 mi
- FresnoCategory 2 · 75 mi
- GanadoCategory 2 · 36 mi
- Port LavacaCategory 2 · 6 mi
- SeadriftCategory 1 · 9 mi
- EdnaCategory 1 · 30 mi
- InezCategory 1 · 23 mi
- Port AransasCategory 1 · 53 mi
- RockportCategory 1 · 37 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 1 · 47 mi
- HallettsvilleTropical storm · 55 mi
- VictoriaTropical storm · 16 mi
- YoakumTropical storm · 45 mi
- ShinerTropical storm · 58 mi
- InglesideTropical storm · 51 mi
- RefugioTropical storm · 19 mi
- CueroTropical storm · 34 mi
- GregoryTropical storm · 47 mi
- PortlandTropical storm · 49 mi
- TaftTropical storm · 43 mi
- GoliadTropical storm · 6 mi
- Corpus ChristiTropical storm · 61 mi
- GonzalesTropical storm · 63 mi
- YorktownTropical storm · 27 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 38 mi
- OdemTropical storm · 45 mi
- BeevilleTropical storm · 12 mi
- KenedyTropical storm · 16 mi
- Karnes CityTropical storm · 24 mi
- SkidmoreTropical storm · 25 mi
- Three RiversTropical storm · 30 mi
- Falls CityTropical storm · 34 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 35 mi
- George WestTropical storm · 36 mi
and 26 more
Other storms of the 1866 season
- Unnamed (AL071866)Tropical storm · 1,430 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.