atlantic hurricane season atlantic hurricane season featured tropical cyclones making landfall season tropical storms hurricanes major hurricanes absence modern satellite remote sensing technologies storms affected populated land areas encountered ships sea recorded actual total higher bias zero tropical cyclones year estimated initially documented tropical cyclones report season sixth system added records taken panama tropical cyclone observed tropical storm offshore east_coast united_states june june second systems active mid august mid september respectively attained category intensity peaks modern day saffir simpson hurricane wind scale landfall fourth tropical cyclone caused flooding brought heavy rain parts barbados october track prior date unknown fifth hurricane known active days october east_coast united_states finally sixth system centered near panama november november season activity reflected low accumulated cyclone energy ace rating ace broadly speaking measure power hurricane multiplied length time existed storms long time particularly strong hurricanes high aces ace calculated advisories tropical systems exceeding knots mph tropical storm strength storms tropical storm based reports ships tropical storm known existed days mid june east_coast united_states formed approximately miles east savannah georgia june moved slowly north dissipating days later located miles east virginia hurricane category hurricane modern day saffir simpson hurricane wind scale seen august located approximately miles east florida days tracked north moved parallel east_coast united_states system dissipated roughly miles south newfoundland august hurricane september spanish ship julian strong gale thrown beam ends days later docked saint thomas september hurricane near barbados information available hurricane september september september pike encountered hurricane roughly miles coast north_carolina ships reported encountering hurricane conditions september east_coast united_states far north based reports track began miles northeast september ended september coast nova scotia tropical storm october tropical storm caused flooding day high winds heavy rain observed barbados storm affected track identified storm assigned single location database hurricane modern day category hurricane seen october approximately miles west bermuda schooner encountered storm thrown beam ends schooner suffered considerable damage men drowned day north barque fell beam ends managed reach safety october hurricane traveled northward parallel east_coast united_states ship reported losing sails hurricane day storm extratropical midday october dissipated completely october tropical storm based meteorological records kept officer steamer strong tropical storm centered northwest panama november november storm weakened late november began drifting slowly westward november dissipating later day
1862 Atlantic hurricane season