NHC AL091887 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1887
September 11, 1887 – September 22, 1887
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1887 storm peaked at Category 2 with 98 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 32 US cities, 10 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1887 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1887 (AL091887) from September 11, 1887 to September 22, 1887; its peak was 98 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 21 at 86 mph (Category 1), 2 miles from South Padre Island, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 32 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 86 mph (Category 1) 1 mile from South Padre Island, TX.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 32
- At hurricane strength
- 10
- States
- 1
98 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1887 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (32)
- South Padre IslandCategory 1 · 1 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 1 · 1 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 1 · 2 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 1 · 9 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 1 · 13 mi
- OlmitoCategory 1 · 2 mi
- San BenitoCategory 1 · 5 mi
- LyfordCategory 1 · 25 mi
- HarlingenCategory 1 · 12 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 1 · 33 mi
- Santa RosaTropical storm · 18 mi
- La FeriaTropical storm · 9 mi
- MercedesTropical storm · 12 mi
- La VillaTropical storm · 21 mi
- ElsaTropical storm · 21 mi
- EdcouchTropical storm · 24 mi
- ProgresoTropical storm · 7 mi
- WeslacoTropical storm · 23 mi
- DonnaTropical storm · 14 mi
- EdinburgTropical storm · 27 mi
- AlamoTropical storm · 17 mi
- AltonTropical storm · 34 mi
- San JuanTropical storm · 18 mi
- PharrTropical storm · 20 mi
- McallenTropical storm · 23 mi
- HidalgoTropical storm · 15 mi
- MissionTropical storm · 26 mi
- PenitasTropical storm · 30 mi
- La JoyaTropical storm · 30 mi
- Sullivan CityTropical storm · 34 mi
- Rio Grande CityTropical storm · 48 mi
- RomaTropical storm · 61 mi
Other storms of the 1887 season
- Unnamed (AL031887)Tropical storm · 62 cities
- Unnamed (AL041887)Category 2 · 236 cities
- Unnamed (AL061887)Category 3 · 17 cities
- Unnamed (AL071887)Category 3 · 3 cities
- Unnamed (AL131887)Category 1 · 512 cities
- Unnamed (AL161887)Category 1 · 202 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.