NHC AL061912 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1912
October 11, 1912 – October 18, 1912
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1912 storm peaked at Category 2 with 98 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 67 US cities, 25 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1912 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1912 (AL061912) from October 11, 1912 to October 18, 1912; its peak was 98 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on October 16 at 98 mph (Category 2), 40 miles from Kingsville, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 67 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 98 mph (Category 2) 24 miles from South Padre Island, TX; the centre came closest to Skidmore, TX, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 67
- At hurricane strength
- 25
- States
- 1
98 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1912 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (67)
- South Padre IslandCategory 2 · 24 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 2 · 30 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 2 · 37 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 2 · 38 mi
- LyfordCategory 2 · 42 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 2 · 43 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 2 · 47 mi
- OlmitoCategory 2 · 47 mi
- San BenitoCategory 2 · 48 mi
- HarlingenCategory 2 · 49 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 2 · 52 mi
- La VillaCategory 2 · 56 mi
- La FeriaCategory 2 · 57 mi
- EdcouchCategory 2 · 57 mi
- ElsaCategory 2 · 60 mi
- MercedesCategory 2 · 60 mi
- EdinburgCategory 2 · 66 mi
- WeslacoCategory 2 · 66 mi
- ProgresoCategory 2 · 66 mi
- DonnaCategory 2 · 68 mi
- AltonCategory 2 · 68 mi
- AlamoCategory 2 · 71 mi
- San JuanCategory 2 · 72 mi
- PharrCategory 2 · 74 mi
- FalfurriasCategory 1 · 43 mi
- PremontTropical storm · 37 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 20 mi
- Corpus ChristiTropical storm · 12 mi
- BishopTropical storm · 13 mi
- Port AransasTropical storm · 33 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 47 mi
- RobstownTropical storm · 4 mi
- PortlandTropical storm · 19 mi
- InglesideTropical storm · 25 mi
- AliceTropical storm · 29 mi
- GregoryTropical storm · 21 mi
- Aransas PassTropical storm · 29 mi
- OdemTropical storm · 3 mi
- TaftTropical storm · 17 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 26 mi
- RockportTropical storm · 37 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 9 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 57 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 10 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 16 mi
- SkidmoreTropical storm · overhead
- RefugioTropical storm · 27 mi
- GoliadTropical storm · 32 mi
- KenedyTropical storm · 34 mi
- Karnes CityTropical storm · 43 mi
- YorktownTropical storm · 49 mi
- Falls CityTropical storm · 52 mi
- VictoriaTropical storm · 55 mi
- CueroTropical storm · 60 mi
- SeadriftTropical storm · 61 mi
- JourdantonTropical storm · 64 mi
- PleasantonTropical storm · 65 mi
- FloresvilleTropical storm · 65 mi
- StockdaleTropical storm · 66 mi
- InezTropical storm · 67 mi
and 7 more
Other storms of the 1912 season
- Unnamed (AL011912)Tropical storm · 1,111 cities
- Unnamed (AL021912)Tropical storm · 166 cities
- Unnamed (AL041912)Category 1 · 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.