NHC AL031940 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1940
August 5, 1940 – August 14, 1940
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1940 storm peaked at Category 2 with 98 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 260 US cities, 50 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1940 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1940 (AL031940) from August 5, 1940 to August 14, 1940; its peak was 98 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 11 at 98 mph (Category 2), 7 miles from Tybee Island, GA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 260 US cities, in 3 states and territories, most in Georgia (151) and Puerto Rico (70). The strongest pass was 98 mph (Category 2) 7 miles from Hilton Head Island, SC; the centre came closest to Port Wentworth, GA, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 260
- At hurricane strength
- 50
- States
- 3
98 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1940 storm passed near, strongest first
South Carolina (39)
- Hilton Head IslandCategory 2 · 7 mi
- Saint Helena IslandCategory 2 · 19 mi
- Port RoyalCategory 2 · 20 mi
- BeaufortCategory 2 · 23 mi
- Edisto IslandCategory 2 · 31 mi
- Wadmalaw IslandCategory 2 · 39 mi
- HollywoodCategory 2 · 43 mi
- Johns IslandCategory 2 · 44 mi
- RavenelCategory 2 · 48 mi
- CharlestonCategory 2 · 51 mi
- Sullivans IslandCategory 2 · 52 mi
- WalterboroCategory 2 · 55 mi
- Isle Of PalmsCategory 2 · 56 mi
- Charleston AfbCategory 2 · 57 mi
- North CharlestonCategory 2 · 57 mi
- Mount PleasantCategory 2 · 57 mi
- CottagevilleCategory 2 · 61 mi
- Daniel IslandCategory 2 · 61 mi
- LadsonCategory 2 · 63 mi
- SummervilleCategory 2 · 63 mi
- Goose CreekCategory 2 · 64 mi
- RidgevilleCategory 2 · 64 mi
- AwendawCategory 2 · 69 mi
- HugerCategory 2 · 71 mi
- DorchesterCategory 2 · 72 mi
- SeabrookCategory 1 · 32 mi
- BlufftonCategory 1 · 9 mi
- OkatieCategory 1 · 13 mi
- YemasseeCategory 1 · 39 mi
- RuffinCategory 1 · 59 mi
- RidgelandCategory 1 · 24 mi
- HardeevilleCategory 1 · 8 mi
- VarnvilleCategory 1 · 45 mi
- HamptonCategory 1 · 47 mi
- EstillCategory 1 · 37 mi
- FairfaxTropical storm · 52 mi
- AllendaleTropical storm · 54 mi
- BarnwellTropical storm · 69 mi
- JacksonTropical storm · 70 mi
Georgia (151)
- Tybee IslandCategory 2 · 7 mi
- SavannahCategory 1 · 10 mi
- St Simons IslandCategory 1 · 70 mi
- Garden CityCategory 1 · 5 mi
- Port WentworthCategory 1 · overhead
- DarienCategory 1 · 55 mi
- TownsendCategory 1 · 45 mi
- PoolerCategory 1 · 5 mi
- Richmond HillCategory 1 · 20 mi
- RinconCategory 1 · 7 mi
- BrunswickCategory 1 · 69 mi
- MidwayCategory 1 · 29 mi
- BloomingdaleCategory 1 · 5 mi
- SpringfieldCategory 1 · 13 mi
- ClyoCategory 1 · 21 mi
- EllabellTropical storm · 4 mi
- GuytonTropical storm · 7 mi
- Fort StewartTropical storm · 25 mi
- HinesvilleTropical storm · 29 mi
- AllenhurstTropical storm · 33 mi
- PembrokeTropical storm · 7 mi
- LudowiciTropical storm · 36 mi
- HortenseTropical storm · 66 mi
- BrookletTropical storm · 6 mi
- SylvaniaTropical storm · 33 mi
- JesupTropical storm · 47 mi
- StatesboroTropical storm · 10 mi
- GlennvilleTropical storm · 25 mi
- ClaxtonTropical storm · 10 mi
- OdumTropical storm · 45 mi
- ScrevenTropical storm · 55 mi
- PattersonTropical storm · 66 mi
- PortalTropical storm · 16 mi
- CollinsTropical storm · 11 mi
- ReidsvilleTropical storm · 20 mi
- BlackshearTropical storm · 72 mi
- MetterTropical storm · 5 mi
- MillenTropical storm · 32 mi
- BaxleyTropical storm · 42 mi
- WaynesboroTropical storm · 51 mi
- Twin CityTropical storm · 13 mi
- LyonsTropical storm · 14 mi
- AlmaTropical storm · 58 mi
- HephzibahTropical storm · 66 mi
- AugustaTropical storm · 75 mi
- VidaliaTropical storm · 12 mi
- SwainsboroTropical storm · 15 mi
- UvaldaTropical storm · 26 mi
- KeysvilleTropical storm · 54 mi
- NichollsTropical storm · 64 mi
- Fort GordonTropical storm · 72 mi
- HazlehurstTropical storm · 40 mi
- BlytheTropical storm · 63 mi
- GrovetownTropical storm · 74 mi
- SopertonTropical storm · 3 mi
- Mount VernonTropical storm · 17 mi
- WadleyTropical storm · 32 mi
- LouisvilleTropical storm · 41 mi
- WrensTropical storm · 54 mi
- HarlemTropical storm · 70 mi
and 91 more
Puerto Rico (70)
- LoizaTropical storm · 42 mi
- CatanoTropical storm · 43 mi
- DoradoTropical storm · 44 mi
- Toa BajaTropical storm · 44 mi
- LuquilloTropical storm · 45 mi
- CarolinaTropical storm · 45 mi
- San JuanTropical storm · 45 mi
- Vega BajaTropical storm · 45 mi
- Rio GrandeTropical storm · 45 mi
- BarcelonetaTropical storm · 46 mi
- Vega AltaTropical storm · 46 mi
- GarrochalesTropical storm · 47 mi
- CanovanasTropical storm · 47 mi
- ManatiTropical storm · 47 mi
- FajardoTropical storm · 47 mi
- GuaynaboTropical storm · 48 mi
- BayamonTropical storm · 48 mi
- Trujillo AltoTropical storm · 48 mi
- Toa AltaTropical storm · 49 mi
- AreciboTropical storm · 49 mi
- Sabana HoyosTropical storm · 50 mi
- CeibaTropical storm · 51 mi
- FloridaTropical storm · 52 mi
- HatilloTropical storm · 53 mi
- CorozalTropical storm · 54 mi
- MorovisTropical storm · 54 mi
- NaranjitoTropical storm · 54 mi
- CamuyTropical storm · 54 mi
- GuraboTropical storm · 54 mi
- NaguaboTropical storm · 55 mi
- IsabelaTropical storm · 55 mi
- CialesTropical storm · 55 mi
- QuebradillasTropical storm · 55 mi
- JuncosTropical storm · 56 mi
- San AntonioTropical storm · 56 mi
- Aguas BuenasTropical storm · 56 mi
- CaguasTropical storm · 56 mi
- Las PiedrasTropical storm · 58 mi
- ComerioTropical storm · 59 mi
- ViequesTropical storm · 59 mi
- Punta SantiagoTropical storm · 59 mi
- AguadillaTropical storm · 60 mi
- HumacaoTropical storm · 60 mi
- OrocovisTropical storm · 61 mi
- BarranquitasTropical storm · 61 mi
- UtuadoTropical storm · 61 mi
- San LorenzoTropical storm · 61 mi
- CidraTropical storm · 62 mi
- JayuyaTropical storm · 63 mi
- MocaTropical storm · 63 mi
- San SebastianTropical storm · 63 mi
- LaresTropical storm · 64 mi
- AibonitoTropical storm · 65 mi
- CayeyTropical storm · 65 mi
- YabucoaTropical storm · 66 mi
- AguadaTropical storm · 66 mi
- VillalbaTropical storm · 67 mi
- AdjuntasTropical storm · 68 mi
- CoamoTropical storm · 69 mi
- Las MariasTropical storm · 69 mi
and 10 more
Other storms of the 1940 season
- Unnamed (AL021940)Category 2 · 212 cities
- Unnamed (AL041940)Category 2 · 13 cities
- Unnamed (AL061940)Tropical storm · 135 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.