NHC AL051886 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1886
August 12, 1886 – August 21, 1886
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1886 storm peaked at Category 4 with 150 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 152 US cities, 106 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1886 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1886 (AL051886) for 10 days, from August 12, 1886 to August 21, 1886. Its first position, at 10.5°N 58.0°W, records it as a tropical storm; its last, at 33.5°N 101.3°W, as a tropical depression. Its peak was 150 mph (130 knots), Category 4, on August 20, and its lowest central pressure was 925 millibars on August 20. It spent about 6 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 20 at 150 mph (Category 4), 16 miles from Rockport, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 152 US cities, in 2 states, most in Texas (149), between August 18 and August 21. The strongest pass was 150 mph (Category 4) 26 miles from Port Aransas, TX; the centre came closest to Fort Sam Houston, TX, less than a mile away. 106 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 33 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 50% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 6th of the 7 storms of 1886 here.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 152
- At hurricane strength
- 106
- States
- 2
150 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1886 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (149)
- Port AransasCategory 4 · 26 mi
- PalaciosCategory 4 · 55 mi
- RockportCategory 4 · 13 mi
- SeadriftCategory 4 · 20 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 4 · 24 mi
- InglesideCategory 4 · 28 mi
- Corpus ChristiCategory 4 · 44 mi
- GregoryCategory 4 · 29 mi
- PortlandCategory 4 · 32 mi
- Port LavacaCategory 4 · 33 mi
- TaftCategory 4 · 29 mi
- BishopCategory 4 · 65 mi
- KingsvilleCategory 4 · 74 mi
- RobstownCategory 4 · 52 mi
- GanadoCategory 4 · 60 mi
- OdemCategory 4 · 39 mi
- RefugioCategory 4 · 6 mi
- SintonCategory 4 · 31 mi
- EdnaCategory 4 · 51 mi
- InezCategory 4 · 40 mi
- VictoriaCategory 3 · 30 mi
- AliceCategory 3 · 70 mi
- SkidmoreCategory 3 · 28 mi
- MathisCategory 3 · 41 mi
- SandiaCategory 3 · 46 mi
- GoliadCategory 3 · 7 mi
- Orange GroveCategory 3 · 57 mi
- BeevilleCategory 3 · 20 mi
- HallettsvilleCategory 3 · 64 mi
- CueroCategory 3 · 33 mi
- YoakumCategory 3 · 47 mi
- George WestCategory 3 · 45 mi
- YorktownCategory 3 · 18 mi
- KenedyCategory 2 · 6 mi
- ShinerCategory 2 · 55 mi
- Three RiversCategory 2 · 34 mi
- Karnes CityCategory 2 · 2 mi
- FlatoniaCategory 2 · 72 mi
- Falls CityCategory 2 · 4 mi
- GonzalesCategory 2 · 48 mi
- NixonCategory 2 · 24 mi
- StockdaleCategory 1 · 13 mi
- FloresvilleCategory 1 · 1 mi
- PleasantonCategory 1 · 23 mi
- JourdantonCategory 1 · 32 mi
- La VerniaCategory 1 · 11 mi
- LulingCategory 1 · 47 mi
- AdkinsCategory 1 · 5 mi
- ElmendorfCategory 1 · 7 mi
- PoteetCategory 1 · 24 mi
- KingsburyCategory 1 · 40 mi
- Red RockCategory 1 · 69 mi
- Saint HedwigCategory 1 · 11 mi
- SeguinCategory 1 · 27 mi
- Mc QueeneyCategory 1 · 25 mi
- LockhartCategory 1 · 54 mi
- DaleCategory 1 · 62 mi
- ConverseCategory 1 · 9 mi
- Von OrmyCategory 1 · 17 mi
- MarionCategory 1 · 19 mi
and 89 more
Florida (3)
- Key WestCategory 1 · 47 mi
- Summerland KeyCategory 1 · 60 mi
- Big Pine KeyCategory 1 · 64 mi
Other storms of the 1886 season
- Unnamed (AL011886)Category 2 · 272 cities
- Unnamed (AL021886)Category 2 · 663 cities
- Unnamed (AL031886)Category 2 · 811 cities
- Unnamed (AL041886)Category 1 · 208 cities
- Unnamed (AL081886)Category 2 · 124 cities
- Unnamed (AL101886)Category 3 · 177 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.