NHC AL061916 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1916
August 12, 1916 – August 20, 1916
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1916 storm peaked at Category 4 with 132 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 67 US cities, 54 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1916 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1916 (AL061916) for 8 days, from August 12, 1916 to August 20, 1916. Its first position, at 13.4°N 55.0°W, records it as a tropical storm; its last, at 31.2°N 102.5°W, as a tropical depression. Its peak was 132 mph (115 knots), Category 4, on August 18, and its lowest central pressure was 932 millibars on August 18. It spent about 4 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 18 at 132 mph (Category 4), 43 miles from Raymondville, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 67 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 132 mph (Category 4) 45 miles from South Padre Island, TX; the centre came closest to Premont, TX, 1 mile away. 54 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 28 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 24% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 9th of the 11 storms of 1916 here.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 67
- At hurricane strength
- 54
- States
- 1
132 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1916 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (67)
- South Padre IslandCategory 4 · 45 mi
- LyfordCategory 4 · 46 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 4 · 48 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 4 · 49 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 4 · 54 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 4 · 57 mi
- HarlingenCategory 4 · 57 mi
- San BenitoCategory 4 · 60 mi
- OlmitoCategory 4 · 62 mi
- La FeriaCategory 4 · 64 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 4 · 65 mi
- MercedesCategory 4 · 65 mi
- ProgresoCategory 4 · 72 mi
- La VillaCategory 3 · 58 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 3 · 43 mi
- DonnaCategory 3 · 70 mi
- EdcouchCategory 3 · 57 mi
- ElsaCategory 3 · 60 mi
- Port AransasCategory 3 · 59 mi
- AlamoCategory 3 · 71 mi
- WeslacoCategory 3 · 64 mi
- San JuanCategory 3 · 72 mi
- PharrCategory 3 · 72 mi
- RockportCategory 3 · 74 mi
- EdinburgCategory 3 · 62 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 3 · 62 mi
- InglesideCategory 3 · 58 mi
- McallenCategory 3 · 72 mi
- Corpus ChristiCategory 2 · 43 mi
- AltonCategory 2 · 60 mi
- MissionCategory 2 · 74 mi
- GregoryCategory 2 · 59 mi
- PortlandCategory 2 · 56 mi
- TaftCategory 2 · 59 mi
- KingsvilleCategory 2 · 15 mi
- BishopCategory 2 · 24 mi
- FalfurriasCategory 2 · 12 mi
- RobstownCategory 2 · 37 mi
- OdemCategory 2 · 50 mi
- SintonCategory 2 · 59 mi
- Rio Grande CityCategory 2 · 74 mi
- PremontCategory 2 · 1 mi
- SkidmoreCategory 1 · 63 mi
- AliceCategory 1 · 21 mi
- MathisCategory 1 · 50 mi
- SandiaCategory 1 · 45 mi
- Orange GroveCategory 1 · 34 mi
- BeevilleCategory 1 · 72 mi
- San DiegoCategory 1 · 8 mi
- HebbronvilleCategory 1 · 34 mi
- George WestCategory 1 · 49 mi
- ZapataCategory 1 · 66 mi
- FreerCategory 1 · 16 mi
- Three RiversCategory 1 · 61 mi
- LaredoTropical storm · 38 mi
- JourdantonTropical storm · 69 mi
- CotullaTropical storm · 21 mi
- DilleyTropical storm · 36 mi
- PearsallTropical storm · 50 mi
- DevineTropical storm · 71 mi
and 7 more
Other storms of the 1916 season
- Unnamed (AL011916)Tropical storm · 2,383 cities
- Unnamed (AL021916)Category 3 · 436 cities
- Unnamed (AL031916)Category 2 · 802 cities
- Unnamed (AL041916)Category 3 · 370 cities
- Unnamed (AL071916)Category 2 · 182 cities
- Unnamed (AL091916)Tropical storm · 190 cities
- Unnamed (AL121916)Tropical storm · 73 cities
- Unnamed (AL131916)Category 3 · 1 cities
- Unnamed (AL141916)Category 2 · 330 cities
- Unnamed (AL151916)Tropical storm · 60 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.