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NHC AL021929 · Atlantic basin

Unnamed Hurricane of 1929

September 19, 1929 – October 5, 1929

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

Hurricane Unnamed 1929 storm peaked at Category 4 with 155 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 2,218 US cities, 74 of them while still at hurricane strength.

The 1929 storm in the record

HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1929 (AL021929) from September 19, 1929 to October 5, 1929; its peak was 155 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks 2 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site, the first on September 28 at 115 mph (Category 3), 2 miles from Tavernier, FL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 2,218 US cities, in 18 states and territories, most in Pennsylvania (476) and New York (281). The strongest pass was 115 mph (Category 3) less than a mile from Tavernier, FL.

Peak strength
Category 4

155 mph

Cities within 75 mi
2,218
At hurricane strength
74

when closest

States
18
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Cities Unnamed 1929 storm passed near, strongest first

Florida (105)

and 45 more

Alabama (20)

Georgia (153)

and 93 more

Pennsylvania (476)

and 416 more

New York (281)

and 221 more

North Carolina (243)

and 183 more

Maryland (222)

and 162 more

New Jersey (210)

and 150 more

Virginia (200)

and 140 more

South Carolina (162)

and 102 more

Vermont (72)

and 12 more

Delaware (27)

New Hampshire (18)

Massachusetts (12)

West Virginia (8)

Connecticut (1)

District of Columbia (1)

Maine (7)

Other storms of the 1929 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.