NHC AL041854 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1854
September 18, 1854 – September 20, 1854
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1854 storm peaked at Category 2 with 104 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 151 US cities, 55 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1854 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1854 (AL041854) from September 18, 1854 to September 20, 1854; its peak was 104 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 18 at 104 mph (Category 2), 6 miles from Freeport, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 151 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 104 mph (Category 2) 35 miles from Santa Fe, TX; the centre came closest to Sweeny, TX, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 151
- At hurricane strength
- 55
- States
- 1
104 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1854 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (151)
- Santa FeCategory 2 · 35 mi
- HitchcockCategory 2 · 35 mi
- GalvestonCategory 2 · 37 mi
- La MarqueCategory 2 · 38 mi
- Texas CityCategory 2 · 40 mi
- DickinsonCategory 2 · 43 mi
- BacliffCategory 2 · 46 mi
- KemahCategory 2 · 47 mi
- Crystal BeachCategory 2 · 50 mi
- AnahuacCategory 2 · 66 mi
- SeabrookCategory 2 · 49 mi
- BaytownCategory 2 · 64 mi
- FreeportCategory 2 · 4 mi
- League CityCategory 2 · 43 mi
- La PorteCategory 2 · 55 mi
- WebsterCategory 2 · 45 mi
- CluteCategory 2 · 7 mi
- DanburyCategory 2 · 20 mi
- AlvinCategory 2 · 34 mi
- FriendswoodCategory 2 · 42 mi
- Deer ParkCategory 2 · 55 mi
- HighlandsCategory 2 · 65 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 2 · 6 mi
- ChannelviewCategory 2 · 61 mi
- PasadenaCategory 2 · 53 mi
- AngletonCategory 1 · 14 mi
- South HoustonCategory 1 · 51 mi
- ManvelCategory 1 · 37 mi
- PearlandCategory 1 · 42 mi
- Galena ParkCategory 1 · 55 mi
- BrazoriaCategory 1 · 1 mi
- RosharonCategory 1 · 31 mi
- SweenyCategory 1 · overhead
- West ColumbiaCategory 1 · 8 mi
- FresnoCategory 1 · 37 mi
- Missouri CityCategory 1 · 38 mi
- BellaireCategory 1 · 48 mi
- Van VleckCategory 1 · 5 mi
- Bay CityCategory 1 · 12 mi
- StaffordCategory 1 · 40 mi
- Sugar LandCategory 1 · 37 mi
- BolingCategory 1 · 8 mi
- NeedvilleCategory 1 · 20 mi
- RosenbergCategory 1 · 29 mi
- PalaciosCategory 1 · 32 mi
- RichmondCategory 1 · 33 mi
- BeasleyCategory 1 · 22 mi
- WhartonCategory 1 · 7 mi
- SeadriftCategory 1 · 66 mi
- El CampoCategory 1 · 5 mi
- FulshearCategory 1 · 35 mi
- Port LavacaCategory 1 · 52 mi
- East BernardCategory 1 · 20 mi
- WallisCategory 1 · 27 mi
- GanadoCategory 1 · 22 mi
- EdnaTropical storm · 31 mi
- WeimarTropical storm · 10 mi
- Eagle LakeTropical storm · 14 mi
- SchulenburgTropical storm · 19 mi
- HallettsvilleTropical storm · 22 mi
and 91 more
Other storms of the 1854 season
- Unnamed (AL011854)Category 1 · 37 cities
- Unnamed (AL031854)Category 3 · 626 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.