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NHC AL131944 · Atlantic basin

Unnamed Hurricane of 1944

October 12, 1944 – October 24, 1944

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

Hurricane Unnamed 1944 storm peaked at Category 4 with 144 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 1,129 US cities, 194 of them while still at hurricane strength.

The 1944 storm in the record

HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1944 (AL131944) from October 12, 1944 to October 24, 1944; its peak was 144 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on October 19 at 104 mph (Category 2), 1 mile from Osprey, FL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 1,129 US cities, in 12 states, most in North Carolina (249) and Florida (242). The strongest pass was 119 mph (Category 3) 70 miles from Key West, FL; the centre came closest to Hollister, NC, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Category 4

144 mph

Cities within 75 mi
1,129
At hurricane strength
194

when closest

States
12
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Cities Unnamed 1944 storm passed near, strongest first

Florida (242)

and 182 more

Georgia (53)

South Carolina (170)

and 110 more

North Carolina (249)

and 189 more

New Jersey (78)

and 18 more

Massachusetts (69)

and 9 more

New York (49)

Rhode Island (23)

Connecticut (5)

Virginia (118)

and 58 more

Delaware (28)

Maryland (45)

Other storms of the 1944 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.