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NHC AL021896 · Atlantic basin

Unnamed Hurricane of 1896

August 30, 1896 – September 11, 1896

Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated

Hurricane Unnamed 1896 storm peaked at Category 3 with 115 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 711 US cities, 107 of them while still at hurricane strength.

The 1896 storm in the record

HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1896 (AL021896) from August 30, 1896 to September 11, 1896; its peak was 115 mph (Category 3). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 10 at 81 mph (Category 1), 13 miles from Chilmark, MA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 711 US cities, in 7 states and territories, most in Massachusetts (288) and Maine (150). The strongest pass was 98 mph (Category 2) less than a mile from Yauco, PR; the centre came closest to Manchester, ME, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Category 3

115 mph

Cities within 75 mi
711
At hurricane strength
107

when closest

States
7
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Cities Unnamed 1896 storm passed near, strongest first

Puerto Rico (86)

and 26 more

New York (1)

Massachusetts (288)

and 228 more

Rhode Island (49)

Connecticut (27)

New Hampshire (110)

and 50 more

Maine (150)

and 90 more

Other storms of the 1896 season

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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.