NHC AL041857 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1857
September 24, 1857 – September 30, 1857
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1857 storm peaked at Category 2 with 104 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 40 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1857 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1857 (AL041857) from September 24, 1857 to September 30, 1857; its peak was 104 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 30 at 58 mph (tropical storm), 24 miles from South Padre Island, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 40 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 58 mph (tropical storm) less than a mile from Olmito, TX.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 40
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
104 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1857 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (40)
- OlmitoTropical storm · overhead
- BrownsvilleTropical storm · 3 mi
- Los FresnosTropical storm · 8 mi
- Port IsabelTropical storm · 11 mi
- South Padre IslandTropical storm · 16 mi
- San BenitoTropical storm · 2 mi
- Rio HondoTropical storm · 14 mi
- La FeriaTropical storm · 3 mi
- Santa RosaTropical storm · 4 mi
- HarlingenTropical storm · 4 mi
- MercedesTropical storm · 5 mi
- ProgresoTropical storm · 12 mi
- LyfordTropical storm · 15 mi
- ElsaTropical storm · overhead
- La VillaTropical storm · 2 mi
- EdcouchTropical storm · 3 mi
- WeslacoTropical storm · 5 mi
- DonnaTropical storm · 10 mi
- AlamoTropical storm · 12 mi
- San JuanTropical storm · 12 mi
- RaymondvilleTropical storm · 17 mi
- HidalgoTropical storm · 20 mi
- AltonTropical storm · 2 mi
- EdinburgTropical storm · 3 mi
- PharrTropical storm · 13 mi
- McallenTropical storm · 13 mi
- MissionTropical storm · 16 mi
- PenitasTropical storm · 20 mi
- La JoyaTropical storm · 21 mi
- Sullivan CityTropical storm · 22 mi
- Rio Grande CityTropical storm · 17 mi
- FalfurriasTropical storm · 45 mi
- PremontTropical storm · 55 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 71 mi
- RomaTropical storm · 25 mi
- HebbronvilleTropical storm · 23 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 64 mi
- ZapataTropical storm · 10 mi
- LaredoTropical storm · 44 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 72 mi
Other storms of the 1857 season
- Unnamed (AL021857)Category 2 · 169 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.