The unnamed hurricane of 1909
Sep 13, 1909 to Sep 22, 1909Peak 121 mph952 mb
The unnamed hurricane of 1909 passed within 50 miles of 90 counties in 3 states. It was strongest near St. Mary Parish, LA, as a Category 3 on September 21, 1909.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Unnamed hurricane · 1909
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- 121 mph, 105 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 952 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 90
- AR, LA, MS
- Counties within 100 miles
- 157
- AR, LA, MS, TN
- Landfalls recorded
- 1
- Anywhere on the track
Every county it passed
Closest approach to each county boundary, with the storm’s strength at that moment.
| Morehouse Parish | LA | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Concordia Parish | LA | 0.0 | Category 1 |
| Desha County | AR | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Ashley County | AR | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Jackson County | AR | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Lawrence County | AR | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| St. Martin Parish | LA | 0.0 | Category 2 |
| West Feliciana Parish | LA | 0.0 | Category 2 |
| Iberville Parish | LA | 0.0 | Category 2 |
| Arkansas County | AR | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| St. Mary Parish | LA | 0.0 | Category 3 |
| Woodruff County | AR | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Monroe County | AR | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Franklin Parish | LA | 0.0 | Category 1 |
| West Carroll Parish | LA | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Drew County | AR | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Independence County | AR | 0.7 | Tropical storm |
| Pointe Coupee Parish | LA | 1.4 | Category 2 |
| Wilkinson County | MS | 2.0 | Category 1 |
| Jefferson County | AR | 2.0 | Tropical storm |
| Terrebonne Parish | LA | 2.1 | Category 3 |
| Richland Parish | LA | 2.1 | Tropical storm |
| Catahoula Parish | LA | 2.2 | Category 1 |
| Lincoln County | AR | 3.0 | Tropical storm |
| Prairie County | AR | 3.3 | Tropical storm |
| Madison Parish | LA | 4.2 | Category 1 |
| Avoyelles Parish | LA | 4.4 | Category 1 |
| West Baton Rouge Parish | LA | 4.4 | Category 2 |
| Chicot County | AR | 4.5 | Tropical storm |
| Iberia Parish | LA | 6.1 | Category 2 |
| White County | AR | 6.5 | Tropical storm |
| Tensas Parish | LA | 6.7 | Category 1 |
| East Carroll Parish | LA | 7.2 | Tropical storm |
| Adams County | MS | 7.3 | Category 1 |
| St. Francis County | AR | 8.5 | Tropical storm |
| Craighead County | AR | 9.4 | Tropical storm |
| Assumption Parish | LA | 10.5 | Category 2 |
| St. Landry Parish | LA | 10.9 | Category 2 |
| Lee County | AR | 12.9 | Tropical storm |
| Poinsett County | AR | 13.3 | Tropical storm |
| East Baton Rouge Parish | LA | 13.6 | Category 2 |
| Washington County | MS | 13.9 | Tropical storm |
| Bolivar County | MS | 14.1 | Tropical storm |
| Caldwell Parish | LA | 15.2 | Category 1 |
| East Feliciana Parish | LA | 15.3 | Category 2 |
| Cross County | AR | 15.4 | Tropical storm |
| Phillips County | AR | 16.2 | Tropical storm |
| Lonoke County | AR | 18.1 | Tropical storm |
| Issaquena County | MS | 18.6 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson County | MS | 18.6 | Category 1 |
| LaSalle Parish | LA | 18.9 | Category 1 |
| Ascension Parish | LA | 19.6 | Category 2 |
| Greene County | AR | 20.0 | Tropical storm |
| Ouachita Parish | LA | 20.4 | Tropical storm |
| Rapides Parish | LA | 22.3 | Category 1 |
| Lafourche Parish | LA | 22.7 | Category 2 |
| Claiborne County | MS | 24.3 | Category 1 |
| Coahoma County | MS | 25.4 | Tropical storm |
| Warren County | MS | 26.6 | Category 1 |
| St. James Parish | LA | 27.5 | Category 2 |
| Lafayette Parish | LA | 27.7 | Category 2 |
| Izard County | AR | 27.9 | Tropical storm |
| Bradley County | AR | 28.5 | Tropical storm |
| Grant Parish | LA | 29.7 | Category 1 |
| Union Parish | LA | 29.8 | Tropical storm |
| Livingston Parish | LA | 30.3 | Category 2 |
| Franklin County | MS | 30.8 | Category 1 |
| Cleburne County | AR | 31.7 | Tropical storm |
| Cleveland County | AR | 31.8 | Tropical storm |
| Union County | AR | 31.9 | Tropical storm |
| Vermilion Parish | LA | 32.6 | Category 2 |
| Sharkey County | MS | 33.4 | Tropical storm |
| Amite County | MS | 34.1 | Category 2 |
| Stone County | AR | 34.7 | Tropical storm |
| Evangeline Parish | LA | 36.0 | Category 2 |
| St. Helena Parish | LA | 37.7 | Category 2 |
| Pulaski County | AR | 38.3 | Tropical storm |
| Acadia Parish | LA | 39.3 | Category 2 |
| Winn Parish | LA | 40.3 | Category 1 |
| Sunflower County | MS | 40.5 | Tropical storm |
| Jackson Parish | LA | 41.0 | Category 1 |
| Tunica County | MS | 42.5 | Tropical storm |
| Crittenden County | AR | 42.5 | Tropical storm |
| St. John the Baptist Parish | LA | 42.9 | Category 2 |
| Humphreys County | MS | 44.4 | Tropical storm |
| Yazoo County | MS | 45.1 | Tropical storm |
| Faulkner County | AR | 46.5 | Tropical storm |
| Grant County | AR | 47.3 | Tropical storm |
| Calhoun County | AR | 48.6 | Tropical storm |
| Lincoln Parish | LA | 49.5 | Category 1 |
| St. Charles Parish | LA | 50.1 | Category 2 |
| Saline County | AR | 50.5 | Tropical storm |
| Hinds County | MS | 51.0 | Category 1 |
| Dallas County | AR | 51.7 | Tropical storm |
| Quitman County | MS | 53.1 | Tropical storm |
| Copiah County | MS | 53.7 | Category 1 |
| Tallahatchie County | MS | 54.3 | Tropical storm |
| Lincoln County | MS | 54.7 | Category 1 |
| Tangipahoa Parish | LA | 55.6 | Category 2 |
| Van Buren County | AR | 55.8 | Tropical storm |
| Shelby County | TN | 56.0 | Tropical storm |
| DeSoto County | MS | 56.1 | Tropical storm |
| Leflore County | MS | 56.4 | Tropical storm |
| Allen Parish | LA | 58.5 | Category 1 |
| Natchitoches Parish | LA | 60.5 | Category 1 |
| Tipton County | TN | 61.1 | Tropical storm |
| Tate County | MS | 62.3 | Tropical storm |
| Pike County | MS | 62.5 | Category 2 |
| Ouachita County | AR | 62.7 | Tropical storm |
| Holmes County | MS | 62.8 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson Parish | LA | 63.8 | Category 3 |
| Madison County | MS | 64.9 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson Davis Parish | LA | 65.2 | Category 2 |
| Panola County | MS | 65.3 | Tropical storm |
| Vernon Parish | LA | 67.4 | Category 1 |
| Searcy County | AR | 67.7 | Tropical storm |
| Claiborne Parish | LA | 68.3 | Tropical storm |
| Marion County | AR | 68.7 | Tropical storm |
| Conway County | AR | 68.7 | Tropical storm |
| Bienville Parish | LA | 68.7 | Category 1 |
| Perry County | AR | 70.5 | Tropical storm |
| Lauderdale County | TN | 70.6 | Tropical storm |
| Cameron Parish | LA | 71.0 | Category 2 |
| St. Tammany Parish | LA | 72.7 | Category 2 |
| Washington Parish | LA | 73.0 | Category 2 |
| Hot Spring County | AR | 73.2 | Tropical storm |
| Orleans Parish | LA | 74.0 | Category 2 |
| Grenada County | MS | 74.5 | Tropical storm |
| Carroll County | MS | 74.7 | Tropical storm |
| Plaquemines Parish | LA | 75.8 | Category 3 |
| Walthall County | MS | 79.2 | Category 2 |
| Rankin County | MS | 79.4 | Category 1 |
| Beauregard Parish | LA | 80.9 | Category 1 |
| Simpson County | MS | 81.2 | Category 1 |
| St. Bernard Parish | LA | 81.6 | Category 2 |
| Garland County | AR | 81.6 | Tropical storm |
| Clark County | AR | 82.9 | Tropical storm |
| Yalobusha County | MS | 83.5 | Tropical storm |
| Lawrence County | MS | 83.6 | Category 1 |
| Columbia County | AR | 84.8 | Tropical storm |
| Calcasieu Parish | LA | 85.6 | Category 2 |
| Red River Parish | LA | 87.2 | Category 1 |
| Pope County | AR | 88.7 | Tropical storm |
| Marshall County | MS | 89.2 | Tropical storm |
| Sabine Parish | LA | 90.7 | Category 1 |
| Webster Parish | LA | 90.9 | Category 1 |
| Attala County | MS | 91.0 | Tropical storm |
| Yell County | AR | 91.3 | Tropical storm |
| Fayette County | TN | 91.5 | Tropical storm |
| Lafayette County | MS | 92.2 | Tropical storm |
| Marion County | MS | 94.8 | Category 1 |
| Nevada County | AR | 94.9 | Tropical storm |
| Montgomery County | MS | 95.0 | Tropical storm |
| Newton County | AR | 96.8 | Tropical storm |
| Haywood County | TN | 97.3 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson Davis County | MS | 98.7 | Category 1 |
| Pearl River County | MS | 99.1 | Category 2 |
Distances are measured from hourly positions interpolated between the National Hurricane Center’s six-hourly fixes to each county boundary. Strength is shown only where the storm was still tropical. Methodology.
National Hurricane Center HURDAT2. Storm totals cover the Atlantic and Northeast and Central Pacific basins.