NHC AL091887 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1887
September 11, 1887 – September 22, 1887
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.
- 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
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.