NHC AL031911 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1911
August 23, 1911 – August 31, 1911
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1911 storm peaked at Category 2 with 98 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 175 US cities, 34 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1911 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1911 (AL031911) from August 23, 1911 to August 31, 1911; its peak was 98 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 28 at 98 mph (Category 2), 3 miles from Hilton Head Island, SC. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 175 US cities, in 2 states, most in Georgia (128). The strongest pass was 98 mph (Category 2) 13 miles from Port Royal, SC; the centre came closest to Hilton Head Island, SC, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 175
- At hurricane strength
- 34
- States
- 2
98 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1911 storm passed near, strongest first
South Carolina (47)
- Port RoyalCategory 2 · 13 mi
- Saint Helena IslandCategory 2 · 14 mi
- BeaufortCategory 2 · 17 mi
- Edisto IslandCategory 2 · 29 mi
- Wadmalaw IslandCategory 2 · 39 mi
- HollywoodCategory 2 · 41 mi
- Johns IslandCategory 2 · 44 mi
- RavenelCategory 2 · 47 mi
- WalterboroCategory 2 · 48 mi
- Sullivans IslandCategory 2 · 50 mi
- CharlestonCategory 2 · 50 mi
- Isle Of PalmsCategory 2 · 53 mi
- CottagevilleCategory 2 · 55 mi
- Mount PleasantCategory 2 · 55 mi
- Charleston AfbCategory 2 · 57 mi
- North CharlestonCategory 2 · 57 mi
- Daniel IslandCategory 2 · 60 mi
- RidgevilleCategory 2 · 61 mi
- SummervilleCategory 2 · 62 mi
- LadsonCategory 2 · 62 mi
- Goose CreekCategory 2 · 63 mi
- AwendawCategory 2 · 66 mi
- DorchesterCategory 2 · 67 mi
- Saint GeorgeCategory 2 · 69 mi
- HugerCategory 2 · 69 mi
- HarleyvilleCategory 2 · 73 mi
- Hilton Head IslandCategory 1 · overhead
- SeabrookCategory 1 · 25 mi
- BranchvilleCategory 1 · 71 mi
- RuffinCategory 1 · 54 mi
- YemasseeCategory 1 · 33 mi
- BlufftonCategory 1 · 3 mi
- OkatieCategory 1 · 8 mi
- RidgelandTropical storm · 20 mi
- HardeevilleTropical storm · 4 mi
- VarnvilleTropical storm · 41 mi
- HamptonTropical storm · 43 mi
- BambergTropical storm · 72 mi
- EstillTropical storm · 33 mi
- FairfaxTropical storm · 48 mi
- DenmarkTropical storm · 73 mi
- AllendaleTropical storm · 50 mi
- BarnwellTropical storm · 64 mi
- BlackvilleTropical storm · 74 mi
- JacksonTropical storm · 66 mi
- Beech IslandTropical storm · 72 mi
- New EllentonTropical storm · 72 mi
Georgia (128)
- Tybee IslandCategory 1 · 13 mi
- SavannahTropical storm · 14 mi
- St Simons IslandTropical storm · 74 mi
- Garden CityTropical storm · 9 mi
- Port WentworthTropical storm · 5 mi
- DarienTropical storm · 59 mi
- PoolerTropical storm · 9 mi
- TownsendTropical storm · 49 mi
- RinconTropical storm · 3 mi
- Richmond HillTropical storm · 24 mi
- MidwayTropical storm · 33 mi
- BrunswickTropical storm · 73 mi
- BloomingdaleTropical storm · 9 mi
- SpringfieldTropical storm · 9 mi
- ClyoTropical storm · 17 mi
- GuytonTropical storm · 2 mi
- EllabellTropical storm · 8 mi
- AllenhurstTropical storm · 37 mi
- Fort StewartTropical storm · 29 mi
- HinesvilleTropical storm · 33 mi
- BrookletTropical storm · 1 mi
- PembrokeTropical storm · 11 mi
- LudowiciTropical storm · 40 mi
- HortenseTropical storm · 71 mi
- SylvaniaTropical storm · 29 mi
- JesupTropical storm · 51 mi
- StatesboroTropical storm · 6 mi
- GlennvilleTropical storm · 30 mi
- ClaxtonTropical storm · 15 mi
- PortalTropical storm · 12 mi
- MillenTropical storm · 28 mi
- WaynesboroTropical storm · 47 mi
- KeysvilleTropical storm · 54 mi
- BlytheTropical storm · 63 mi
- HephzibahTropical storm · 64 mi
- Fort GordonTropical storm · 71 mi
- AugustaTropical storm · 72 mi
- HarlemTropical storm · 73 mi
- GrovetownTropical storm · 74 mi
- MetterTropical storm · 2 mi
- Twin CityTropical storm · 12 mi
- DearingTropical storm · 72 mi
- CollinsTropical storm · 13 mi
- WrensTropical storm · 59 mi
- ReidsvilleTropical storm · 21 mi
- LouisvilleTropical storm · 46 mi
- SwainsboroTropical storm · 18 mi
- WadleyTropical storm · 37 mi
- OdumTropical storm · 48 mi
- ScrevenTropical storm · 59 mi
- GibsonTropical storm · 64 mi
- LyonsTropical storm · 11 mi
- PattersonTropical storm · 68 mi
- VidaliaTropical storm · 7 mi
- DavisboroTropical storm · 47 mi
- GlenwoodTropical storm · 2 mi
- AlamoTropical storm · 2 mi
- HelenaTropical storm · 2 mi
- Mount VernonTropical storm · 5 mi
- Mc RaeTropical storm · 6 mi
and 68 more
Other storms of the 1911 season
- Unnamed (AL021911)Category 1 · 232 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.