• Max Recorded Sustained Wind: 121 mph at Blue Hill Observatory, MA
• Max Recorded Wind Gust: 186 mph at Blue Hill Observatory, MA
• Highest Sustained Wind Measurement not Influenced by Terrain: 109 mph at Fishers Island, NY (Landsea et al 2013)
• Lowest Observed Pressure: 27.94 in (946.2 mb) at Bellport, NY
• Estimated Lowest Pressure: 27.79 in (941 mb) near Brentwood, NY as the wind and pressure centers were slightly displaced due to its fast speed and extra-tropical transition (Landsea et al. 2013, National Hurricane Center; Hurricane Research Division Re-Analysis Project)
• Speed at landfall: 47 mph (Landsea et al. 2013, National Hurricane Center; Hurricane Research Division Re-Analysis Project)
• Peak Storm Surge: 17 ft. above normal high tide (Rhode Island)
• Peak Wave Height: 50 ft. at Gloucester, MA
• Deaths: 700
• Homeless: Approx. 63,000
• Homes/Buildings Destroyed: Approx. 8,900
• Trees Destroyed: Approx. 2 Billion
• Boats Lost or Destroyed: Approx. 3,300
• Cost: $620 million (1938 Dollars); Equivalent to approx. $41 billion using 2005 inflation, wealth, and population normalization then estimated to 2010 Dollars (Blake and Gibney 2011).

Information from Francis (1998) unless otherwise noted.

• Landfall near Bellport, NY sometime between 2:10 and 2:40 pm EST as a Category 3 with an approx. pressure of 27.79 in (941 mb) and a 120 mph maximum sustained wind (Landsea et al. 2013).
• Around 60 lives were lost and hundreds injured.
• Thousands of homes and cottages destroyed or damaged. Many farms destroyed and their livestock killed.
• 6.2 million dollars (1938 Dollars) in damage in the Hamptons alone.
• A 16.75 ft. Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) storm tide occurred at Willets Point which is a record height that still remains today (gauge later moved to Kings Point)
• An estimated storm tide of 15ft. across eastern Long Island. 8' MLLW was record at Port Jefferson.
• The storm surge in Western Long Island Sound was 5 1/2 hrs AFTER landfall.
• 20,000 miles of power and telephone lines downed (Mandia 2013).
• Ten new inlets formed from the storm from Fire Island to East Hampton. The most notable was Shinnecock Inlet. A few others have since been filled by artificial means.
• Montauk was an island temporarily.
• LIRR tracks were washed out.
• Fishing industry wiped out and half of the apple crop destroyed.

• Hurricane made second landfall around 4 pm somewhere between Bridgeport and New haven as a Category 3 with an approx. pressure of 27.94 (946 mb) and a 115 mph maximum sustained wind (Landsea et al. 2013).
• Hundreds of lives were lost with many injured.
• Extensive damage to homes, trees, and crops.
• The storm tide at New London was 10.58' MLLW which is a record tide that still remains today.
• Stamford recorded a 14.1' MLLW storm tide and Bridgeport recorded a 12.8' MLLW storm tide.
• Bridges, utilities, and railroads were wiped out.
• Catastrophic damage to fishing fleets.