NHC AL031926 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1926
August 20, 1926 – August 27, 1926
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1926 storm peaked at Category 3 with 115 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 198 US cities, 58 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1926 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1926 (AL031926) from August 20, 1926 to August 27, 1926; its peak was 115 mph (Category 3). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 25 at 115 mph (Category 3), 21 miles from Chauvin, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 198 US cities, in 3 states, most in Louisiana (182) and Mississippi (9). The strongest pass was 110 mph (Category 3) 40 miles from Golden Meadow, LA; the centre came closest to Belle Rose, LA, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- Cities within 75 mi
- 198
- At hurricane strength
- 58
- States
- 3
115 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1926 storm passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (182)
- Golden MeadowCategory 3 · 40 mi
- ChauvinCategory 2 · 18 mi
- GallianoCategory 2 · 37 mi
- MontegutCategory 2 · 24 mi
- Port SulphurCategory 2 · 68 mi
- Cut OffCategory 2 · 36 mi
- LaroseCategory 2 · 29 mi
- LafitteCategory 2 · 51 mi
- HoumaCategory 2 · 14 mi
- LockportCategory 2 · 27 mi
- RacelandCategory 1 · 21 mi
- GrayCategory 1 · 12 mi
- SchrieverCategory 1 · 8 mi
- Belle ChasseCategory 1 · 58 mi
- Saint BernardCategory 1 · 69 mi
- Morgan CityCategory 1 · 13 mi
- BerwickCategory 1 · 16 mi
- PattersonCategory 1 · 21 mi
- Des AllemandsCategory 1 · 32 mi
- MarreroCategory 1 · 52 mi
- HarveyCategory 1 · 55 mi
- VioletCategory 1 · 65 mi
- ThibodauxCategory 1 · 10 mi
- GretnaCategory 1 · 57 mi
- WestwegoCategory 1 · 49 mi
- MerauxCategory 1 · 64 mi
- BoutteCategory 1 · 36 mi
- LulingCategory 1 · 39 mi
- ArabiCategory 1 · 60 mi
- ChalmetteCategory 1 · 62 mi
- HarahanCategory 1 · 48 mi
- New OrleansCategory 1 · 57 mi
- Saint RoseCategory 1 · 42 mi
- VacherieCategory 1 · 18 mi
- PaulinaCategory 1 · 18 mi
- LutcherCategory 1 · 21 mi
- GramercyCategory 1 · 21 mi
- ReserveCategory 1 · 29 mi
- La PlaceCategory 1 · 33 mi
- HahnvilleCategory 1 · 36 mi
- NorcoCategory 1 · 36 mi
- DestrehanCategory 1 · 38 mi
- KennerCategory 1 · 46 mi
- MetairieCategory 1 · 50 mi
- LacombeCategory 1 · 70 mi
- NapoleonvilleCategory 1 · overhead
- FranklinCategory 1 · 32 mi
- MandevilleCategory 1 · 65 mi
- Pierre PartCategory 1 · 10 mi
- Abita SpringsCategory 1 · 71 mi
- Belle RoseCategory 1 · overhead
- MadisonvilleCategory 1 · 60 mi
- DonaldsonvilleCategory 1 · 6 mi
- SorrentoCategory 1 · 17 mi
- Saint AmantCategory 1 · 20 mi
- CovingtonCategory 1 · 67 mi
- MaurepasCategory 1 · 26 mi
- PonchatoulaCategory 1 · 48 mi
- GeismarTropical storm · 9 mi
- GonzalesTropical storm · 15 mi
and 122 more
Mississippi (9)
Texas (7)
- NewtonTropical storm · 56 mi
- HemphillTropical storm · 67 mi
- KirbyvilleTropical storm · 68 mi
- BrookelandTropical storm · 74 mi
- JasperTropical storm · 74 mi
- BunaTropical storm · 74 mi
- OrangeTropical storm · 75 mi
Other storms of the 1926 season
- Unnamed (AL011926)Category 4 · 447 cities
- Unnamed (AL071926)Category 4 · 350 cities
- Unnamed (AL101926)Category 4 · 57 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.