NHC AL051855 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1855
September 15, 1855 – September 17, 1855
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1855 storm peaked at Category 3 with 127 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 222 US cities, 112 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1855 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1855 (AL051855) from September 15, 1855 to September 17, 1855; its peak was 127 mph (Category 3). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 16 at 127 mph (Category 3), 11 miles from Buras, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 222 US cities, in 3 states, most in Mississippi (103) and Alabama (60). The strongest pass was 127 mph (Category 3) 1 mile from Buras, LA; the centre came closest to Brooklyn, MS, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- Cities within 75 mi
- 222
- At hurricane strength
- 112
- States
- 3
127 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1855 storm passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (59)
- BurasCategory 3 · overhead
- Port SulphurCategory 3 · 17 mi
- LafitteCategory 3 · 36 mi
- Golden MeadowCategory 3 · 45 mi
- GallianoCategory 3 · 48 mi
- Cut OffCategory 3 · 51 mi
- LaroseCategory 3 · 57 mi
- LockportCategory 3 · 60 mi
- MontegutCategory 3 · 62 mi
- RacelandCategory 3 · 67 mi
- ChauvinCategory 3 · 67 mi
- HoumaCategory 3 · 73 mi
- Des AllemandsCategory 3 · 58 mi
- Belle ChasseCategory 3 · 32 mi
- HarveyCategory 3 · 36 mi
- MarreroCategory 3 · 39 mi
- LulingCategory 3 · 53 mi
- BoutteCategory 3 · 55 mi
- Saint BernardCategory 3 · 22 mi
- VioletCategory 3 · 27 mi
- GretnaCategory 3 · 35 mi
- WestwegoCategory 3 · 43 mi
- HarahanCategory 3 · 45 mi
- Saint RoseCategory 3 · 52 mi
- DestrehanCategory 3 · 55 mi
- HahnvilleCategory 3 · 58 mi
- MerauxCategory 3 · 28 mi
- ChalmetteCategory 3 · 31 mi
- ArabiCategory 3 · 33 mi
- New OrleansCategory 3 · 37 mi
- MetairieCategory 3 · 44 mi
- KennerCategory 3 · 48 mi
- NorcoCategory 3 · 58 mi
- ReserveCategory 3 · 67 mi
- GramercyCategory 3 · 75 mi
- La PlaceCategory 3 · 63 mi
- SlidellCategory 3 · 23 mi
- LacombeCategory 3 · 33 mi
- MandevilleCategory 3 · 42 mi
- MadisonvilleCategory 3 · 49 mi
- PonchatoulaCategory 3 · 63 mi
- HammondCategory 3 · 67 mi
- SpringfieldCategory 3 · 71 mi
- AlbanyCategory 3 · 74 mi
- RobertCategory 3 · 58 mi
- TickfawCategory 3 · 70 mi
- Pearl RiverCategory 3 · 25 mi
- CovingtonCategory 3 · 46 mi
- Abita SpringsCategory 3 · 40 mi
- IndependenceCategory 3 · 72 mi
- LorangerCategory 2 · 63 mi
- FolsomCategory 2 · 54 mi
- AmiteCategory 2 · 74 mi
- BushCategory 2 · 39 mi
- RoselandCategory 2 · 75 mi
- BogalusaCategory 2 · 39 mi
- FranklintonCategory 2 · 54 mi
- Mount HermonCategory 2 · 64 mi
- AngieCategory 1 · 42 mi
Mississippi (103)
- WavelandCategory 3 · 1 mi
- Bay St LouisCategory 3 · 3 mi
- DiamondheadCategory 2 · 2 mi
- Pass ChristianCategory 2 · 4 mi
- KilnCategory 2 · 7 mi
- Long BeachCategory 2 · 10 mi
- PicayuneCategory 2 · 22 mi
- GulfportCategory 2 · 13 mi
- BiloxiCategory 2 · 21 mi
- DibervilleCategory 2 · 23 mi
- CarriereCategory 2 · 24 mi
- Ocean SpringsCategory 2 · 31 mi
- GautierCategory 2 · 38 mi
- PascagoulaCategory 2 · 45 mi
- SaucierCategory 2 · 7 mi
- VancleaveCategory 1 · 28 mi
- Moss PointCategory 1 · 44 mi
- Mc HenryCategory 1 · 3 mi
- PoplarvilleCategory 1 · 22 mi
- PerkinstonCategory 1 · 7 mi
- Sandy HookCategory 1 · 44 mi
- TylertownCategory 1 · 61 mi
- WigginsCategory 1 · 3 mi
- LumbertonCategory 1 · 23 mi
- LucedaleCategory 1 · 32 mi
- BrooklynCategory 1 · overhead
- FoxworthCategory 1 · 50 mi
- PurvisCategory 1 · 21 mi
- ColumbiaCategory 1 · 44 mi
- JayessCategory 1 · 68 mi
- BeaumontCategory 1 · 8 mi
- HattiesburgCategory 1 · 18 mi
- LeakesvilleCategory 1 · 26 mi
- SumrallCategory 1 · 34 mi
- PetalCategory 1 · 13 mi
- MonticelloCategory 1 · 68 mi
- BassfieldTropical storm · 44 mi
- Silver CreekTropical storm · 62 mi
- RichtonTropical storm · 8 mi
- MoselleTropical storm · 20 mi
- PrentissTropical storm · 54 mi
- OvettTropical storm · 6 mi
- SeminaryTropical storm · 30 mi
- State LineTropical storm · 25 mi
- CollinsTropical storm · 38 mi
- NewhebronTropical storm · 62 mi
- EllisvilleTropical storm · 17 mi
- Mount OliveTropical storm · 45 mi
- LaurelTropical storm · 14 mi
- BuckatunnaTropical storm · 23 mi
- TaylorsvilleTropical storm · 32 mi
- MageeTropical storm · 50 mi
- WaynesboroTropical storm · 14 mi
- MizeTropical storm · 41 mi
- MendenhallTropical storm · 58 mi
- BraxtonTropical storm · 67 mi
- HeidelbergTropical storm · 9 mi
- ShubutaTropical storm · 5 mi
- Bay SpringsTropical storm · 27 mi
- RaleighTropical storm · 40 mi
and 43 more
Alabama (60)
- CodenCategory 1 · 65 mi
- Grand BayCategory 1 · 55 mi
- IrvingtonCategory 1 · 60 mi
- TheodoreCategory 1 · 63 mi
- MobileCategory 1 · 60 mi
- WilmerCategory 1 · 46 mi
- SemmesCategory 1 · 52 mi
- Eight MileCategory 1 · 58 mi
- WhistlerCategory 1 · 61 mi
- ChickasawCategory 1 · 62 mi
- PrichardCategory 1 · 63 mi
- Spanish FortCategory 1 · 75 mi
- SaralandCategory 1 · 61 mi
- SatsumaCategory 1 · 62 mi
- ChunchulaCategory 1 · 53 mi
- CitronelleCategory 1 · 47 mi
- Mount VernonCategory 1 · 60 mi
- McintoshTropical storm · 54 mi
- ChatomTropical storm · 40 mi
- MillryTropical storm · 32 mi
- JacksonTropical storm · 61 mi
- Grove HillTropical storm · 63 mi
- ButlerTropical storm · 28 mi
- ThomasvilleTropical storm · 57 mi
- Pine HillTropical storm · 68 mi
- YorkTropical storm · 16 mi
- LindenTropical storm · 46 mi
- LivingstonTropical storm · 21 mi
- DemopolisTropical storm · 38 mi
- GallionTropical storm · 44 mi
- UniontownTropical storm · 58 mi
- AlicevilleTropical storm · 9 mi
- CarrolltonTropical storm · 19 mi
- EutawTropical storm · 22 mi
- GordoTropical storm · 32 mi
- ReformTropical storm · 32 mi
- MoundvilleTropical storm · 40 mi
- CokerTropical storm · 40 mi
- MillportTropical storm · 42 mi
- GreensboroTropical storm · 45 mi
- NorthportTropical storm · 46 mi
- TuscaloosaTropical storm · 46 mi
- DuncanvilleTropical storm · 50 mi
- VernonTropical storm · 53 mi
- CottondaleTropical storm · 53 mi
- FayetteTropical storm · 54 mi
- BerryTropical storm · 60 mi
- SulligentTropical storm · 60 mi
- MarionTropical storm · 60 mi
- BrookwoodTropical storm · 61 mi
- VanceTropical storm · 62 mi
- BrentTropical storm · 63 mi
- WoodstockTropical storm · 67 mi
- CentrevilleTropical storm · 67 mi
- West BloctonTropical storm · 68 mi
- AdgerTropical storm · 69 mi
- WinfieldTropical storm · 70 mi
- OakmanTropical storm · 71 mi
- GuinTropical storm · 71 mi
- Mc CallaTropical storm · 72 mi
Other storms of the 1855 season
- Unnamed (AL041855)Tropical storm · 45 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.