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NHC AL091945 · Atlantic basin

Unnamed Hurricane of 1945

September 12, 1945 – September 20, 1945

Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated

Hurricane Unnamed 1945 storm peaked at Category 4 with 132 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 1,120 US cities, 293 of them while still at hurricane strength.

The 1945 storm in the record

HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1945 (AL091945) for 9 days, from September 12, 1945 to September 20, 1945. Its first position, at 19.0°N 58.5°W, records it as a hurricane; its last, at 47.9°N 46.1°W, as an extratropical cyclone. Its peak was 132 mph (115 knots), Category 4, on September 15, and its lowest central pressure was 949 millibars on September 15. It spent about 5 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks 3 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site; they were on September 15 at 132 mph (Category 4), 13 miles from Key Largo, FL; on September 15 at 132 mph (Category 4), 7 miles from Homestead, FL; on September 17 at 69 mph (tropical storm), 7 miles from Tybee Island, GA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 1,120 US cities, in 8 states and territories, most in Florida (309) and North Carolina (230), between September 15 and September 18. The strongest pass was 132 mph (Category 4) 13 miles from Key Largo, FL; the centre came closest to Dorchester, SC, less than a mile away. 293 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 54 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 89% of the 737 storms on this site, and more than any other storm of 1945 on this site.

Peak strength
Category 4

132 mph

Cities within 75 mi
1,120
At hurricane strength
293

when closest

States
8
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Cities Unnamed 1945 storm passed near, strongest first

Florida (309)

and 249 more

Georgia (47)

South Carolina (156)

and 96 more

North Carolina (230)

and 170 more

Virginia (225)

and 165 more

Maryland (151)

and 91 more

District of Columbia (1)

West Virginia (1)

Other storms of the 1945 season

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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.