NHC AL041917 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1917
September 20, 1917 – September 30, 1917
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1917 storm peaked at Category 4 with 150 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 249 US cities, 92 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1917 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1917 (AL041917) from September 20, 1917 to September 30, 1917; its peak was 150 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 29 at 115 mph (Category 3), 3 miles from Fort Walton Beach, FL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 249 US cities, in 5 states, most in Georgia (124) and Alabama (73). The strongest pass was 121 mph (Category 3) 57 miles from Buras, LA; the centre came closest to Cordele, GA, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 249
- At hurricane strength
- 92
- States
- 5
150 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1917 storm passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (1)
- BurasCategory 3 · 57 mi
Alabama (73)
- Orange BeachCategory 3 · 30 mi
- LillianCategory 3 · 31 mi
- ElbertaCategory 3 · 34 mi
- Gulf ShoresCategory 3 · 34 mi
- FoleyCategory 3 · 40 mi
- SummerdaleCategory 3 · 46 mi
- RobertsdaleCategory 3 · 48 mi
- SilverhillCategory 3 · 50 mi
- FairhopeCategory 3 · 54 mi
- LoxleyCategory 3 · 55 mi
- FlomatonCategory 3 · 57 mi
- CodenCategory 3 · 58 mi
- DaphneCategory 3 · 59 mi
- Spanish FortCategory 3 · 63 mi
- IrvingtonCategory 3 · 65 mi
- TheodoreCategory 3 · 65 mi
- Bay MinetteCategory 3 · 69 mi
- Grand BayCategory 3 · 69 mi
- AtmoreCategory 3 · 70 mi
- MobileCategory 3 · 72 mi
- PrichardCategory 3 · 73 mi
- ChickasawCategory 3 · 75 mi
- WhistlerCategory 3 · 75 mi
- BrewtonCategory 2 · 57 mi
- EvergreenCategory 1 · 67 mi
- FloralaCategory 1 · 21 mi
- Red LevelCategory 1 · 51 mi
- AndalusiaCategory 1 · 41 mi
- GeorgianaCategory 1 · 69 mi
- SamsonCategory 1 · 12 mi
- KinstonCategory 1 · 22 mi
- OppCategory 1 · 30 mi
- GenevaCategory 1 · 3 mi
- BrantleyCategory 1 · 48 mi
- GreenvilleCategory 1 · 70 mi
- ChancellorCategory 1 · 9 mi
- HartfordCategory 1 · 1 mi
- ElbaCategory 1 · 30 mi
- EnterpriseCategory 1 · 16 mi
- LuverneCategory 1 · 54 mi
- SlocombCategory 1 · 8 mi
- New BrocktonCategory 1 · 23 mi
- DalevilleCategory 1 · 9 mi
- NewtonCategory 1 · 4 mi
- Fort RuckerCategory 1 · 12 mi
- CottonwoodTropical storm · 19 mi
- Midland CityTropical storm · 2 mi
- DothanTropical storm · 6 mi
- OzarkTropical storm · 14 mi
- CowartsTropical storm · 12 mi
- AritonTropical storm · 24 mi
- BrundidgeTropical storm · 34 mi
- TroyTropical storm · 46 mi
- AshfordTropical storm · 15 mi
- RamerTropical storm · 67 mi
- HeadlandTropical storm · 2 mi
- ColumbiaTropical storm · 12 mi
- ClioTropical storm · 24 mi
- ClaytonTropical storm · 27 mi
- Union SpringsTropical storm · 54 mi
and 13 more
Florida (50)
- Fort Walton BeachCategory 3 · 3 mi
- Mary EstherCategory 3 · 5 mi
- NavarreCategory 3 · 13 mi
- Gulf BreezeCategory 3 · 27 mi
- PensacolaCategory 3 · 27 mi
- MiltonCategory 3 · 28 mi
- PaceCategory 3 · 33 mi
- CantonmentCategory 3 · 37 mi
- MolinoCategory 3 · 46 mi
- JayCategory 3 · 47 mi
- CenturyCategory 3 · 57 mi
- Mc DavidCategory 3 · 58 mi
- Hurlburt FieldCategory 3 · 5 mi
- Eglin AfbCategory 3 · overhead
- ShalimarCategory 3 · 1 mi
- DestinCategory 3 · 7 mi
- ValparaisoCategory 2 · 1 mi
- Miramar BeachCategory 2 · 11 mi
- NicevilleCategory 2 · 1 mi
- Santa Rosa BeachCategory 2 · 19 mi
- CrestviewCategory 2 · 15 mi
- BakerCategory 2 · 27 mi
- FreeportCategory 2 · 14 mi
- Inlet BeachCategory 2 · 35 mi
- Panama City BeachCategory 2 · 42 mi
- Panama CityCategory 2 · 51 mi
- Defuniak SpringsCategory 2 · 4 mi
- Laurel HillCategory 2 · 20 mi
- Lynn HavenCategory 2 · 47 mi
- Ponce De LeonCategory 1 · 14 mi
- VernonCategory 1 · 24 mi
- WewahitchkaCategory 1 · 74 mi
- YoungstownCategory 1 · 46 mi
- WestvilleCategory 1 · 3 mi
- ChipleyCategory 1 · 30 mi
- FountainCategory 1 · 44 mi
- BonifayCategory 1 · 16 mi
- AlfordCategory 1 · 38 mi
- AlthaCategory 1 · 51 mi
- BlountstownCategory 1 · 61 mi
- GracevilleCategory 1 · 17 mi
- CottondaleCategory 1 · 30 mi
- BristolCategory 1 · 68 mi
- MariannaCategory 1 · 38 mi
- Grand RidgeCategory 1 · 49 mi
- GreenwoodTropical storm · 37 mi
- MaloneTropical storm · 29 mi
- SneadsTropical storm · 50 mi
- ChattahoocheeTropical storm · 57 mi
- QuincyTropical storm · 69 mi
Mississippi (1)
- PascagoulaCategory 3 · 70 mi
Georgia (124)
- DonalsonvilleTropical storm · 37 mi
- BlakelyTropical storm · 18 mi
- BrinsonTropical storm · 48 mi
- BainbridgeTropical storm · 59 mi
- ColquittTropical storm · 37 mi
- ClimaxTropical storm · 59 mi
- GeorgetownTropical storm · 16 mi
- WhighamTropical storm · 62 mi
- CairoTropical storm · 66 mi
- CuthbertTropical storm · 3 mi
- MorganTropical storm · 14 mi
- LumpkinTropical storm · 20 mi
- CamillaTropical storm · 46 mi
- PelhamTropical storm · 54 mi
- OchlockneeTropical storm · 65 mi
- DawsonTropical storm · 7 mi
- RichlandTropical storm · 20 mi
- Fort BenningTropical storm · 43 mi
- ColumbusTropical storm · 51 mi
- FortsonTropical storm · 62 mi
- EllavilleTropical storm · 23 mi
- Buena VistaTropical storm · 30 mi
- Box SpringsTropical storm · 45 mi
- MidlandTropical storm · 53 mi
- EllerslieTropical storm · 56 mi
- Waverly HallTropical storm · 58 mi
- CataulaTropical storm · 59 mi
- ShilohTropical storm · 65 mi
- HamiltonTropical storm · 65 mi
- ManchesterTropical storm · 68 mi
- Warm SpringsTropical storm · 71 mi
- Pine MountainTropical storm · 72 mi
- WoodburyTropical storm · 75 mi
- AmericusTropical storm · 11 mi
- LeesburgTropical storm · 14 mi
- AlbanyTropical storm · 24 mi
- BacontonTropical storm · 38 mi
- ButlerTropical storm · 45 mi
- MeigsTropical storm · 58 mi
- ThomastonTropical storm · 68 mi
- MontezumaTropical storm · 25 mi
- OglethorpeTropical storm · 28 mi
- SylvesterTropical storm · 28 mi
- PoulanTropical storm · 29 mi
- Fort ValleyTropical storm · 42 mi
- DoerunTropical storm · 42 mi
- ReynoldsTropical storm · 43 mi
- RobertaTropical storm · 53 mi
- MoultrieTropical storm · 55 mi
- CoolidgeTropical storm · 64 mi
- PavoTropical storm · 68 mi
- CordeleTropical storm · overhead
- ViennaTropical storm · 10 mi
- AshburnTropical storm · 17 mi
- UnadillaTropical storm · 20 mi
- SycamoreTropical storm · 22 mi
- PerryTropical storm · 35 mi
- TiftonTropical storm · 35 mi
- KathleenTropical storm · 38 mi
- OmegaTropical storm · 43 mi
and 64 more
Other storms of the 1917 season
- Unnamed (AL021917)Tropical storm · 47 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.