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Storm 7 of 1944 1944

Category 5 hurricane · Atlantic · September 9 to September 15, 1944

Storm 7 of 1944's 100 mph landfall in Rhode Island on September 15, 1944 ranks the third-strongest of the 8 storms with a landfall record there. The storm reached Category 5 with 160 mph winds, one of 44 Atlantic storms to do so since 1851. No other storm of the 1944 Atlantic season matched the storm's 160 mph peak; the season had 14 storms.

Track of Storm 7 of 1944 from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N40°N50°N90°W80°W70°W60°W50°W40°WNew York, 105 mphRhode Island, 100 mphPeak 160 mphFirst recordNot tropicalTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 3Category 4Category 500 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Storm 7 of 1944 over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 504080120160200Sep 10Sep 11Sep 12Sep 13Sep 14Sep 15Sep 16mph
  1. First record (tropical storm) 335 miles northeast of Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda
  2. Hurricane 325 miles north-northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. Major hurricane 420 miles north of Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic
  4. Peak 250 miles northeast of Nassau, the Bahamas; lowest pressure 918 mb
  5. Landfall New York: Category 2, 105 mph, 954 mb
  6. Landfall Rhode Island
  7. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 45 miles south-southeast of Bangor, Maine
  8. Last record 525 miles east-northeast of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind160 mph · tied 28th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure918 mb · tied 23rd of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy25.0 · 159th of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone6.0 days · tied 705th of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

More from the record

The storm generated 23% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 1944 storm.

In the 1944 season

04080120160200this storm

Storm 7 of 14 in 1944, hurricane 4 of 8; it formed after Storm 6 of 1944 and before Storm 8 of 1944. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of 7 towns or cities of 10,000 people or more while the system was tropical. Distances are to the interpolated track line, not the storm's edge.

PlaceClosestWind thenDate
Newport, Rhode Island8 mi90 mphSeptember 15
Providence, Rhode Island10 mi85 mphSeptember 15
New Bedford, Massachusetts16 mi80 mphSeptember 15
New London, Connecticut17 mi100 mphSeptember 15
Worcester, Massachusetts44 mi80 mphSeptember 15
Atlantic City, New Jersey46 mi110 mphSeptember 14
New Haven, Connecticut47 mi105 mphSeptember 15

Every storm within 50 miles of Providence, Rhode Island

Similar landfalls in New York

Storms whose strongest landfall record in New York came closest to this one's 105 mph:

All 19 storms with a landfall record in New York

Also peaked at 160 mph

Of 16 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time: