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NHC AL021915 · Atlantic basin

Unnamed Hurricane of 1915

August 5, 1915 – August 23, 1915

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

Hurricane Unnamed 1915 storm peaked at Category 4 with 144 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 1,251 US cities, 80 of them while still at hurricane strength.

The 1915 storm in the record

HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1915 (AL021915) for 18 days, from August 5, 1915 to August 23, 1915. Its first position, at 14.0°N 26.0°W, records it as a tropical depression; its last, at 47.0°N 72.4°W, as an extratropical cyclone. It reached tropical-storm strength on August 6, hurricane strength on August 9 and major-hurricane strength on August 13. Its peak was 144 mph (125 knots), Category 4, on August 14, and its lowest central pressure was 940 millibars on August 17. It spent about 9 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 17 at 132 mph (Category 4), 11 miles from Hitchcock, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 1,251 US cities, in 9 states, most in Ohio (345) and Indiana (255), between August 17 and August 22. The strongest pass was 132 mph (Category 4) 11 miles from Hitchcock, TX; the centre came closest to Trafalgar, IN, less than a mile away. 80 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 36 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 91% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 2nd of the 4 storms of 1915 here.

Peak strength
Category 4

144 mph

Cities within 75 mi
1,251
At hurricane strength
80

when closest

States
9
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Cities Unnamed 1915 storm passed near, strongest first

Texas (250)

and 190 more

Ohio (345)

and 285 more

Indiana (255)

and 195 more

Arkansas (118)

and 58 more

Illinois (87)

and 27 more

Michigan (83)

and 23 more

Kentucky (54)

Missouri (54)

Tennessee (5)

Other storms of the 1915 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.