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NHC AL101893 · Atlantic basin

Unnamed Hurricane of 1893

September 27, 1893 – October 5, 1893

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

Hurricane Unnamed 1893 storm peaked at Category 4 with 132 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 928 US cities, 134 of them while still at hurricane strength.

The 1893 storm in the record

HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1893 (AL101893) for 8 days, from September 27, 1893 to October 5, 1893. Its first position, at 16.4°N 81.7°W, records it as a tropical storm; its last, at 35.0°N 70.4°W, as a tropical storm. Its peak was 132 mph (115 knots), Category 4, on October 2, and its lowest central pressure was 948 millibars on October 2. It spent about 5 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks 2 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site; they were on October 2 at 132 mph (Category 4), 16 miles from Port Sulphur, LA; on October 2 at 109 mph (Category 2), 10 miles from Biloxi, MS. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 928 US cities, in 7 states, most in North Carolina (254) and Georgia (230), between October 2 and October 4. The strongest pass was 132 mph (Category 4) 19 miles from Golden Meadow, LA; the centre came closest to Greenville, GA, less than a mile away. 134 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 43 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 88% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 4th of the 9 storms of 1893 here.

Peak strength
Category 4

132 mph

Cities within 75 mi
928
At hurricane strength
134

when closest

States
7
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Cities Unnamed 1893 storm passed near, strongest first

Louisiana (54)

Mississippi (38)

Alabama (148)

and 88 more

Florida (12)

Georgia (230)

and 170 more

South Carolina (192)

and 132 more

North Carolina (254)

and 194 more

Other storms of the 1893 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.