NHC AL081886 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1886
September 16, 1886 – September 24, 1886
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1886 storm peaked at Category 2 with 98 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 124 US cities, 57 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1886 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1886 (AL081886) from September 16, 1886 to September 24, 1886; its peak was 98 mph (Category 2). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 124 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 97 mph (Category 2) 1 mile from Port Isabel, TX.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 124
- At hurricane strength
- 57
- States
- 1
98 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1886 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (124)
- Port IsabelCategory 2 · overhead
- BrownsvilleCategory 2 · 15 mi
- South Padre IslandCategory 2 · 6 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 2 · 10 mi
- OlmitoCategory 2 · 18 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 1 · 12 mi
- San BenitoCategory 1 · 22 mi
- HarlingenCategory 1 · 25 mi
- La FeriaCategory 1 · 32 mi
- ProgresoCategory 1 · 42 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 1 · 30 mi
- MercedesCategory 1 · 37 mi
- DonnaCategory 1 · 46 mi
- AlamoCategory 1 · 49 mi
- San JuanCategory 1 · 51 mi
- PharrCategory 1 · 53 mi
- HidalgoCategory 1 · 58 mi
- LyfordCategory 1 · 21 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 1 · 25 mi
- La VillaCategory 1 · 35 mi
- EdcouchCategory 1 · 37 mi
- ElsaCategory 1 · 39 mi
- WeslacoCategory 1 · 46 mi
- EdinburgCategory 1 · 47 mi
- AltonCategory 1 · 51 mi
- McallenCategory 1 · 55 mi
- MissionCategory 1 · 60 mi
- PenitasCategory 1 · 67 mi
- La JoyaCategory 1 · 70 mi
- Sullivan CityCategory 1 · 73 mi
- FalfurriasCategory 1 · 41 mi
- PremontCategory 1 · 38 mi
- KingsvilleCategory 1 · 23 mi
- Corpus ChristiCategory 1 · 6 mi
- BishopCategory 1 · 18 mi
- San DiegoCategory 1 · 54 mi
- RobstownCategory 1 · 11 mi
- Port AransasCategory 1 · 25 mi
- AliceCategory 1 · 36 mi
- FreerCategory 1 · 66 mi
- TaftCategory 1 · 6 mi
- OdemCategory 1 · 7 mi
- PortlandCategory 1 · 10 mi
- GregoryCategory 1 · 12 mi
- InglesideCategory 1 · 17 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 1 · 20 mi
- Orange GroveCategory 1 · 36 mi
- SintonCategory 1 · 3 mi
- MathisCategory 1 · 23 mi
- RockportCategory 1 · 25 mi
- SandiaCategory 1 · 28 mi
- SkidmoreCategory 1 · 15 mi
- George WestCategory 1 · 43 mi
- RefugioCategory 1 · 11 mi
- BeevilleCategory 1 · 20 mi
- Three RiversCategory 1 · 47 mi
- SeadriftCategory 1 · 43 mi
- GoliadTropical storm · 2 mi
- Port LavacaTropical storm · 45 mi
- KenedyTropical storm · 30 mi
and 64 more
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 (AL051886)Category 4 · 152 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.