NHC AL011881 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Tropical Storm of 1881
August 1, 1881 – August 4, 1881
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Unnamed 1881 storm peaked at Tropical storm with 58 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 81 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1881 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1881 (AL011881) from August 1, 1881 to August 4, 1881; its peak was 58 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 3 at 58 mph (tropical storm), 14 miles from Coden, AL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 81 US cities, in 3 states, most in Alabama (38) and Mississippi (36). The strongest pass was 58 mph (tropical storm) 34 miles from Gulf Shores, AL; the centre came closest to Grand Bay, AL, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 81
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 3
58 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1881 storm passed near, strongest first
Alabama (38)
- Gulf ShoresTropical storm · 34 mi
- Orange BeachTropical storm · 44 mi
- ElbertaTropical storm · 45 mi
- LillianTropical storm · 52 mi
- CodenTropical storm · 8 mi
- FoleyTropical storm · 37 mi
- SummerdaleTropical storm · 37 mi
- Grand BayTropical storm · overhead
- IrvingtonTropical storm · 6 mi
- FairhopeTropical storm · 27 mi
- SilverhillTropical storm · 35 mi
- RobertsdaleTropical storm · 42 mi
- TheodoreTropical storm · 11 mi
- DaphneTropical storm · 28 mi
- LoxleyTropical storm · 36 mi
- MobileTropical storm · 12 mi
- Spanish FortTropical storm · 28 mi
- PrichardTropical storm · 17 mi
- SemmesTropical storm · 7 mi
- Eight MileTropical storm · 13 mi
- WhistlerTropical storm · 16 mi
- ChickasawTropical storm · 17 mi
- WilmerTropical storm · 2 mi
- SaralandTropical storm · 17 mi
- SatsumaTropical storm · 20 mi
- Bay MinetteTropical storm · 37 mi
- ChunchulaTropical storm · 13 mi
- ChatomTropical storm · 40 mi
- MillryTropical storm · 50 mi
- JacksonTropical storm · 52 mi
- AtmoreTropical storm · 55 mi
- Grove HillTropical storm · 67 mi
- FlomatonTropical storm · 69 mi
- CitronelleTropical storm · 11 mi
- Mount VernonTropical storm · 25 mi
- McintoshTropical storm · 24 mi
- Frisco CityTropical storm · 66 mi
- MonroevilleTropical storm · 72 mi
Florida (7)
Mississippi (36)
- PascagoulaTropical storm · 13 mi
- GautierTropical storm · 19 mi
- Long BeachTropical storm · 50 mi
- WavelandTropical storm · 63 mi
- Bay St LouisTropical storm · 65 mi
- Moss PointTropical storm · 10 mi
- Ocean SpringsTropical storm · 26 mi
- DibervilleTropical storm · 33 mi
- BiloxiTropical storm · 36 mi
- GulfportTropical storm · 45 mi
- Pass ChristianTropical storm · 56 mi
- DiamondheadTropical storm · 62 mi
- KilnTropical storm · 65 mi
- VancleaveTropical storm · 24 mi
- SaucierTropical storm · 45 mi
- PerkinstonTropical storm · 42 mi
- Mc HenryTropical storm · 46 mi
- LucedaleTropical storm · 11 mi
- State LineTropical storm · 36 mi
- RichtonTropical storm · 42 mi
- BuckatunnaTropical storm · 47 mi
- OvettTropical storm · 56 mi
- WaynesboroTropical storm · 57 mi
- PetalTropical storm · 58 mi
- HattiesburgTropical storm · 62 mi
- PurvisTropical storm · 63 mi
- MoselleTropical storm · 67 mi
- EllisvilleTropical storm · 67 mi
- ShubutaTropical storm · 70 mi
- LaurelTropical storm · 71 mi
- PoplarvilleTropical storm · 68 mi
- WigginsTropical storm · 44 mi
- LeakesvilleTropical storm · 6 mi
- BrooklynTropical storm · 36 mi
- BeaumontTropical storm · 24 mi
- LumbertonTropical storm · 60 mi
Other storms of the 1881 season
- Unnamed (AL021881)Tropical storm · 27 cities
- Unnamed (AL041881)Category 1 · 30 cities
- Unnamed (AL051881)Category 2 · 463 cities
- Unnamed (AL061881)Category 2 · 380 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.