NHC AL041860 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1860
September 11, 1860 – September 16, 1860
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1860 storm peaked at Category 2 with 104 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 241 US cities, 103 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1860 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1860 (AL041860) from September 11, 1860 to September 16, 1860; its peak was 104 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 15 at 104 mph (Category 2), 6 miles from Buras, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 241 US cities, in 3 states, most in Alabama (91) and Mississippi (91). The strongest pass was 104 mph (Category 2) 5 miles from Buras, LA; the centre came closest to Beaumont, MS, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 241
- At hurricane strength
- 103
- States
- 3
104 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1860 storm passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (59)
- BurasCategory 2 · 5 mi
- Port SulphurCategory 2 · 12 mi
- Saint BernardCategory 2 · 20 mi
- VioletCategory 2 · 25 mi
- MerauxCategory 2 · 27 mi
- ChalmetteCategory 2 · 29 mi
- Belle ChasseCategory 2 · 30 mi
- ArabiCategory 2 · 32 mi
- LafitteCategory 2 · 32 mi
- GretnaCategory 2 · 33 mi
- HarveyCategory 2 · 34 mi
- New OrleansCategory 2 · 35 mi
- MarreroCategory 2 · 36 mi
- Golden MeadowCategory 2 · 38 mi
- WestwegoCategory 2 · 41 mi
- GallianoCategory 2 · 42 mi
- MetairieCategory 2 · 43 mi
- HarahanCategory 2 · 43 mi
- Cut OffCategory 2 · 45 mi
- KennerCategory 2 · 47 mi
- Saint RoseCategory 2 · 50 mi
- LaroseCategory 2 · 51 mi
- LulingCategory 2 · 51 mi
- BoutteCategory 2 · 53 mi
- DestrehanCategory 2 · 54 mi
- LockportCategory 2 · 54 mi
- Des AllemandsCategory 2 · 55 mi
- HahnvilleCategory 2 · 56 mi
- MontegutCategory 2 · 56 mi
- NorcoCategory 2 · 56 mi
- ChauvinCategory 2 · 61 mi
- La PlaceCategory 2 · 62 mi
- RacelandCategory 2 · 62 mi
- PonchatoulaCategory 2 · 65 mi
- ReserveCategory 2 · 66 mi
- HoumaCategory 2 · 67 mi
- GrayCategory 2 · 72 mi
- SpringfieldCategory 2 · 73 mi
- VacherieCategory 2 · 73 mi
- GramercyCategory 2 · 73 mi
- LutcherCategory 2 · 74 mi
- SlidellCategory 2 · 25 mi
- LacombeCategory 2 · 35 mi
- HammondCategory 2 · 70 mi
- MandevilleCategory 2 · 44 mi
- MadisonvilleCategory 2 · 52 mi
- RobertCategory 2 · 61 mi
- TickfawCategory 2 · 72 mi
- CovingtonCategory 2 · 48 mi
- IndependenceCategory 2 · 75 mi
- Pearl RiverCategory 2 · 28 mi
- Abita SpringsCategory 2 · 43 mi
- LorangerCategory 2 · 66 mi
- FolsomCategory 2 · 56 mi
- BushCategory 1 · 42 mi
- BogalusaCategory 1 · 42 mi
- FranklintonCategory 1 · 58 mi
- Mount HermonCategory 1 · 68 mi
- AngieCategory 1 · 46 mi
Mississippi (91)
- WavelandCategory 2 · 4 mi
- Bay St LouisCategory 2 · 5 mi
- DiamondheadCategory 2 · 5 mi
- Pass ChristianCategory 1 · overhead
- Long BeachCategory 1 · 7 mi
- KilnCategory 1 · 10 mi
- PicayuneCategory 1 · 25 mi
- GulfportCategory 1 · 9 mi
- BiloxiCategory 1 · 18 mi
- CarriereCategory 1 · 27 mi
- DibervilleCategory 1 · 20 mi
- Ocean SpringsCategory 1 · 28 mi
- GautierCategory 1 · 35 mi
- PascagoulaCategory 1 · 42 mi
- SaucierCategory 1 · 4 mi
- Mc HenryCategory 1 · overhead
- VancleaveCategory 1 · 25 mi
- PoplarvilleCategory 1 · 26 mi
- Moss PointCategory 1 · 41 mi
- PerkinstonCategory 1 · 3 mi
- Sandy HookCategory 1 · 48 mi
- TylertownCategory 1 · 65 mi
- WigginsCategory 1 · 8 mi
- LumbertonCategory 1 · 28 mi
- FoxworthCategory 1 · 55 mi
- ColumbiaCategory 1 · 50 mi
- JayessCategory 1 · 74 mi
- BrooklynCategory 1 · 7 mi
- LucedaleCategory 1 · 26 mi
- PurvisCategory 1 · 27 mi
- HattiesburgTropical storm · 26 mi
- SumrallTropical storm · 42 mi
- BeaumontTropical storm · overhead
- BassfieldTropical storm · 53 mi
- Silver CreekTropical storm · 70 mi
- LeakesvilleTropical storm · 17 mi
- PetalTropical storm · 22 mi
- PrentissTropical storm · 63 mi
- SeminaryTropical storm · 40 mi
- RichtonTropical storm · 2 mi
- MoselleTropical storm · 30 mi
- NewhebronTropical storm · 72 mi
- OvettTropical storm · 16 mi
- CollinsTropical storm · 48 mi
- EllisvilleTropical storm · 28 mi
- Mount OliveTropical storm · 56 mi
- State LineTropical storm · 14 mi
- LaurelTropical storm · 26 mi
- TaylorsvilleTropical storm · 45 mi
- MageeTropical storm · 63 mi
- MendenhallTropical storm · 71 mi
- MizeTropical storm · 54 mi
- BuckatunnaTropical storm · 10 mi
- WaynesboroTropical storm · overhead
- HeidelbergTropical storm · 24 mi
- Bay SpringsTropical storm · 41 mi
- RaleighTropical storm · 55 mi
- ShubutaTropical storm · 10 mi
- LouinTropical storm · 43 mi
- MortonTropical storm · 71 mi
and 31 more
Alabama (91)
- CodenCategory 1 · 61 mi
- Grand BayCategory 1 · 51 mi
- IrvingtonCategory 1 · 56 mi
- TheodoreCategory 1 · 58 mi
- FairhopeCategory 1 · 74 mi
- MobileCategory 1 · 55 mi
- WilmerCategory 1 · 40 mi
- SemmesCategory 1 · 46 mi
- WhistlerCategory 1 · 55 mi
- PrichardCategory 1 · 57 mi
- DaphneCategory 1 · 71 mi
- Eight MileCategory 1 · 51 mi
- ChickasawCategory 1 · 56 mi
- Spanish FortCategory 1 · 69 mi
- SaralandTropical storm · 54 mi
- SatsumaTropical storm · 55 mi
- ChunchulaTropical storm · 45 mi
- CitronelleTropical storm · 38 mi
- Bay MinetteTropical storm · 71 mi
- Mount VernonTropical storm · 50 mi
- McintoshTropical storm · 44 mi
- ChatomTropical storm · 27 mi
- MillryTropical storm · 18 mi
- JacksonTropical storm · 47 mi
- Frisco CityTropical storm · 74 mi
- Grove HillTropical storm · 47 mi
- ButlerTropical storm · 12 mi
- ThomasvilleTropical storm · 41 mi
- Pine HillTropical storm · 51 mi
- CamdenTropical storm · 67 mi
- YorkTropical storm · overhead
- LindenTropical storm · 30 mi
- LivingstonTropical storm · 5 mi
- DemopolisTropical storm · 22 mi
- GallionTropical storm · 28 mi
- UniontownTropical storm · 42 mi
- SelmaTropical storm · 68 mi
- GreensboroTropical storm · 29 mi
- MarionTropical storm · 44 mi
- EutawTropical storm · 5 mi
- AlicevilleTropical storm · 13 mi
- CarrolltonTropical storm · 20 mi
- GordoTropical storm · 22 mi
- MoundvilleTropical storm · 22 mi
- CokerTropical storm · 26 mi
- ReformTropical storm · 28 mi
- TuscaloosaTropical storm · 30 mi
- NorthportTropical storm · 32 mi
- DuncanvilleTropical storm · 33 mi
- CottondaleTropical storm · 37 mi
- MillportTropical storm · 41 mi
- BrookwoodTropical storm · 44 mi
- VanceTropical storm · 45 mi
- BrentTropical storm · 46 mi
- FayetteTropical storm · 48 mi
- BerryTropical storm · 50 mi
- CentrevilleTropical storm · 50 mi
- WoodstockTropical storm · 50 mi
- West BloctonTropical storm · 51 mi
- VernonTropical storm · 52 mi
and 31 more
Other storms of the 1860 season
- Unnamed (AL011860)Category 3 · 430 cities
- Unnamed (AL061860)Category 2 · 368 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.