NHC AL031934 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1934
July 22, 1934 – July 26, 1934
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1934 storm peaked at Category 1 with 86 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 70 US cities, 32 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1934 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1934 (AL031934) from July 22, 1934 to July 26, 1934; its peak was 86 mph (Category 1). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on July 25 at 86 mph (Category 1), 16 miles from Rockport, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 70 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 86 mph (Category 1) 22 miles from Seadrift, TX; the centre came closest to Rockport, TX, 4 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 70
- At hurricane strength
- 32
- States
- 1
86 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1934 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (70)
- SeadriftCategory 1 · 22 mi
- Port LavacaCategory 1 · 36 mi
- PalaciosCategory 1 · 47 mi
- InezCategory 1 · 54 mi
- EdnaCategory 1 · 60 mi
- Bay CityCategory 1 · 63 mi
- GanadoCategory 1 · 66 mi
- Van VleckCategory 1 · 70 mi
- BrazoriaCategory 1 · 70 mi
- SweenyCategory 1 · 72 mi
- RockportCategory 1 · 4 mi
- Port AransasCategory 1 · 20 mi
- VictoriaCategory 1 · 49 mi
- FreeportCategory 1 · 69 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 1 · 73 mi
- CluteCategory 1 · 73 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 1 · 13 mi
- InglesideCategory 1 · 17 mi
- GregoryCategory 1 · 14 mi
- RefugioCategory 1 · 14 mi
- PortlandCategory 1 · 16 mi
- TaftCategory 1 · 10 mi
- Corpus ChristiCategory 1 · 28 mi
- CueroCategory 1 · 67 mi
- GoliadCategory 1 · 38 mi
- SintonCategory 1 · 6 mi
- OdemCategory 1 · 13 mi
- RobstownCategory 1 · 25 mi
- YorktownCategory 1 · 59 mi
- SkidmoreCategory 1 · 6 mi
- BeevilleCategory 1 · 19 mi
- BishopCategory 1 · 38 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 4 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 46 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 7 mi
- KenedyTropical storm · 43 mi
- Karnes CityTropical storm · 50 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 15 mi
- AliceTropical storm · 30 mi
- PremontTropical storm · 56 mi
- FalfurriasTropical storm · 66 mi
- StockdaleTropical storm · 74 mi
- Falls CityTropical storm · 55 mi
- George WestTropical storm · 5 mi
- Three RiversTropical storm · 21 mi
- FloresvilleTropical storm · 67 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 35 mi
- ElmendorfTropical storm · 70 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 19 mi
- PleasantonTropical storm · 52 mi
- JourdantonTropical storm · 44 mi
- PoteetTropical storm · 58 mi
- Von OrmyTropical storm · 70 mi
- HebbronvilleTropical storm · 72 mi
- SomersetTropical storm · 67 mi
- AtascosaTropical storm · 73 mi
- DevineTropical storm · 63 mi
- NataliaTropical storm · 66 mi
- LytleTropical storm · 69 mi
- LacosteTropical storm · 75 mi
and 10 more
Other storms of the 1934 season
- Unnamed (AL011934)Category 2 · 2,573 cities
- Unnamed (AL051934)Category 1 · 71 cities
- Unnamed (AL061934)Tropical storm · 65 cities
- Unnamed (AL071934)Category 2 · 1,487 cities
- Unnamed (AL111934)Tropical storm · 73 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.