All storm pages · 1926 Atlantic season
Storm 4 of 1926 1926
Category 4 hurricane · Atlantic · September 1 to September 21, 1926
Storm 4 of 1926 produced 60.9 units of accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), the sixth-most of any Atlantic storm since 1851. The storm lasted 20.75 days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone, the seventh-longest lifespan of the 1,988 Atlantic storms. With a peak of 130 mph, the storm ranked the fourth-strongest of the 11 storms of the 1926 season.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 1,100 miles east-northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
- Tropical storm 970 miles northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
- Hurricane 670 miles east-northeast of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados
- Major hurricane 360 miles north-northeast of Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda
- Peak 250 miles southwest of Hamilton, Bermuda; lowest pressure 957 mb
- No longer tropical (extratropical low) 400 miles south-southeast of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Last record 730 miles north-northeast of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Against every Atlantic storm since 1851
In the 1926 season
Storm 4 of 11 in 1926, hurricane 4 of 8; it formed after Storm 3 of 1926 and before Storm 5 of 1926. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Hamilton, Bermuda, 221 miles from the center on September 14 (Category 3 hurricane stage).
Also peaked at 130 mph
Of 33 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:
- Storm 6 of 1931no pressure recorded, no landfall record
- Storm 2 of 1935no pressure recorded, no landfall record
- Storm 6 of 1916932 mb, landfall in Texas
- Storm 4 of 1941no pressure recorded, no landfall record