1906 Atlantic hurricane season
| 1906 Atlantic hurricane season |
Season summary map
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| Seasonal boundaries |
| First system formed |
June 8, 1906 |
| Last system dissipated |
November 9, 1906 |
| Strongest storm |
|
| Name |
Four |
| • Maximum winds |
135 mph (215 km/h) |
| • Lowest pressure |
950 mbar (hPa; 28.05 inHg) |
| Seasonal statistics |
| Total depressions |
12 |
| Total storms |
11 |
| Hurricanes |
6 |
Major hurricanes
(Cat. 3+) |
3 |
| Total fatalities |
At least 381 |
| Total damage |
> $25.372 million (1906 USD) |
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Atlantic hurricane seasons
1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908
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| Tropical storm (SSHWS) |
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| Duration |
June 8 – June 13 |
| Peak intensity |
50 mph (85 km/h) (1-min) <1002 mbar (hPa) |
| Category 2 hurricane (SSHWS) |
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| Duration |
June 14 – June 23 |
| Peak intensity |
105 mph (165 km/h) (1-min) 979 mbar (hPa) |
| Tropical storm (SSHWS) |
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| Duration |
August 22 – August 25 |
| Peak intensity |
70 mph (110 km/h) (1-min) <1003 mbar (hPa) |
| Category 4 hurricane (SSHWS) |
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| Duration |
August 25 – September 11 |
| Peak intensity |
135 mph (215 km/h) (1-min) 950 mbar (hPa) |
| Category 1 hurricane (SSHWS) |
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| Duration |
September 3 – September 18 |
| Peak intensity |
90 mph (150 km/h) (1-min) 977 mbar (hPa) |
| Category 3 hurricane (SSHWS) |
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| Duration |
September 19 – September 29 |
| Peak intensity |
120 mph (195 km/h) (1-min) 953 mbar (hPa) |
| Tropical storm (SSHWS) |
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| Duration |
September 22 – October 1 |
| Peak intensity |
70 mph (110 km/h) (1-min) <994 mbar (hPa) |
| Category 3 hurricane (SSHWS) |
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| Duration |
October 8 – October 23 |
| Peak intensity |
120 mph (195 km/h) (1-min) 953 mbar (hPa) |
| Tropical storm (SSHWS) |
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| Duration |
October 14 – October 17 |
| Peak intensity |
50 mph (85 km/h) (1-min) <1003 mbar (hPa) |
The 1906 Atlantic hurricane season was the eleventh-deadliest Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, with 381 deaths. The season was fairly active, with eleven storms, of which six became hurricanes and three became major hurricanes. The first storm of the season, a tropical storm in the northern Caribbean Sea, formed on June 8; although it struck the United States, no major impacts were recorded. July saw a period of inactivity, with no known storms. However, in August, the streak of inactivity ended with two storms, including a powerful hurricane. September brought three storms, including a deadly hurricane, with catastrophic impacts in Pensacola and Mobile. October included three storms, with a powerful hurricane that killed over 200 people. The final storm of the season impacted Cuba in early November and dissipated on November 9.
Prior to the advent of modern tropical cyclone tracking technology, notably satellite imagery, many hurricanes that did not affect land directly went unnoticed, and storms that did affect land were not recognized until their onslaught. As a result, information on older hurricane seasons was often incomplete. Modern-day efforts have been made and are still ongoing to reconstruct the tracks of known hurricanes and to identify initially undetected storms. In many cases, the only evidence that a hurricane existed was reports from ships in its path, and judging by the direction of winds experienced by ships, and their location in relation to the storm, it is possible to roughly pinpoint the storm's center of circulation for a given point in time. This is the manner in which all of the eleven known storms in the 1906 season were identified by hurricane expert José Fernández-Partagás's reanalysis of hurricane seasons between 1851 and 1910. Partagás also extended the known tracks of three other hurricanes previously identified by scholars. The information Partagás and his colleague uncovered was largely adopted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic hurricane reanalysis in their updates to the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT), with some slight adjustments. HURDAT is the official source for such hurricane data as track and intensity, although due to a sparsity of available records at the time the storms existed, listings on some storms are incomplete.
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