NHC AL091932 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1932
September 25, 1932 – October 2, 1932
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1932 storm peaked at Category 4 with 144 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 86 US cities, 86 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1932 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1932 (AL091932) for 8 days, from September 25, 1932 to October 2, 1932. Its first position, at 16.8°N 56.7°W, records it as a tropical storm; its last, at 15.7°N 92.5°W, as a tropical depression. Its peak was 144 mph (125 knots), Category 4, on September 26, and its lowest central pressure was 943 millibars on September 27. It spent about 3 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks no landfall for it, so the figures below are its closest approaches to cities. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 86 US cities, all in Puerto Rico. The strongest pass was 132 mph (Category 4) 3 miles from Vieques, PR; the centre came closest to San Lorenzo, PR, less than a mile away. All of them had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 63 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 32% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 6th of the 6 storms of 1932 here.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 86
- At hurricane strength
- 86
- States
- 1
144 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1932 storm passed near, strongest first
Puerto Rico (86)
- ViequesCategory 4 · 3 mi
- CeibaCategory 3 · 10 mi
- FajardoCategory 3 · 14 mi
- Punta SantiagoCategory 3 · 2 mi
- NaguaboCategory 3 · 7 mi
- LuquilloCategory 3 · 16 mi
- HumacaoCategory 3 · overhead
- Las PiedrasCategory 3 · 3 mi
- YabucoaCategory 3 · 5 mi
- MaunaboCategory 3 · 9 mi
- Rio GrandeCategory 3 · 16 mi
- JuncosCategory 3 · 5 mi
- CanovanasCategory 3 · 14 mi
- LoizaCategory 3 · 19 mi
- San LorenzoCategory 3 · overhead
- GuraboCategory 3 · 7 mi
- PatillasCategory 3 · 10 mi
- ArroyoCategory 3 · 13 mi
- CarolinaCategory 3 · 16 mi
- CaguasCategory 3 · 4 mi
- Trujillo AltoCategory 3 · 12 mi
- GuayamaCategory 3 · 14 mi
- San JuanCategory 3 · 15 mi
- CidraCategory 3 · 2 mi
- Aguas BuenasCategory 3 · 4 mi
- CayeyCategory 3 · 5 mi
- GuaynaboCategory 3 · 12 mi
- ComerioCategory 3 · 2 mi
- AibonitoCategory 3 · 5 mi
- NaranjitoCategory 3 · 7 mi
- Toa AltaCategory 3 · 12 mi
- BayamonCategory 3 · 12 mi
- SalinasCategory 3 · 14 mi
- AguirreCategory 3 · 16 mi
- Toa BajaCategory 3 · 16 mi
- CatanoCategory 3 · 17 mi
- BarranquitasCategory 3 · overhead
- CorozalCategory 3 · 7 mi
- CoamoCategory 3 · 7 mi
- Santa IsabelCategory 3 · 15 mi
- Vega AltaCategory 3 · 15 mi
- Vega BajaCategory 3 · 17 mi
- DoradoCategory 3 · 17 mi
- OrocovisCategory 3 · 1 mi
- VillalbaCategory 3 · 5 mi
- CialesCategory 3 · 8 mi
- MorovisCategory 3 · 8 mi
- Juana DiazCategory 3 · 11 mi
- ManatiCategory 3 · 16 mi
- JayuyaCategory 3 · overhead
- Coto LaurelCategory 3 · 9 mi
- FloridaCategory 3 · 11 mi
- PonceCategory 3 · 13 mi
- MerceditaCategory 3 · 14 mi
- Sabana HoyosCategory 3 · 14 mi
- BarcelonetaCategory 3 · 18 mi
- GarrochalesCategory 3 · 18 mi
- AdjuntasCategory 3 · 1 mi
- UtuadoCategory 3 · 5 mi
- PenuelasCategory 3 · 10 mi
and 26 more
Other storms of the 1932 season
- Unnamed (AL021932)Category 4 · 190 cities
- Unnamed (AL031932)Category 1 · 993 cities
- Unnamed (AL061932)Category 1 · 330 cities
- Unnamed (AL081932)Tropical storm · 247 cities
- Unnamed (AL111932)Tropical storm · 834 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.