NHC AL021881 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Tropical Storm of 1881
August 11, 1881 – August 14, 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 46 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 27 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1881 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1881 (AL021881) from August 11, 1881 to August 14, 1881; its peak was 46 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 13 at 46 mph (tropical storm), 10 miles from Rockport, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 27 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 46 mph (tropical storm) 17 miles from Port Aransas, TX; the centre came closest to Rockport, TX, 5 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 27
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
46 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1881 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (27)
- Port AransasTropical storm · 17 mi
- RefugioTropical storm · 31 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 38 mi
- OdemTropical storm · 42 mi
- Port LavacaTropical storm · 45 mi
- RobstownTropical storm · 50 mi
- SkidmoreTropical storm · 51 mi
- GoliadTropical storm · 56 mi
- VictoriaTropical storm · 57 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 57 mi
- BeevilleTropical storm · 59 mi
- InezTropical storm · 62 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 63 mi
- EdnaTropical storm · 68 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 71 mi
- GanadoTropical storm · 75 mi
- Aransas PassTropical storm · 16 mi
- InglesideTropical storm · 20 mi
- Corpus ChristiTropical storm · 36 mi
- RockportTropical storm · 5 mi
- GregoryTropical storm · 22 mi
- PortlandTropical storm · 25 mi
- PalaciosTropical storm · 64 mi
- SeadriftTropical storm · 27 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 67 mi
- TaftTropical storm · 23 mi
- BishopTropical storm · 59 mi
Other storms of the 1881 season
- Unnamed (AL011881)Tropical storm · 81 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.