List of United States hurricanes
The list of United States hurricanes includes all tropical cyclones officially recorded to have produced sustained winds of greater than 74 mph (118 km/h) in the United States, which is the minimum threshold for hurricane intensity. The list, which is sorted by U.S. state, begins in 1851 with the start of the official Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT), as provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division; the data from 1951 to 1979 is subject to change, due to the lack of official wind speed estimates during the time period. Since 1851, a total of 291 North Atlantic hurricanes produced hurricane-force winds in 19 states along the Atlantic coast. Some of these storms may not have made a direct landfall (i.e. remained just offshore) while producing hurricane-force winds on land; some of them may have weakened to a tropical storm or became extratropical before landfall but produced hurricane conditions on land while still a hurricane and some of them made landfall in an adjacent state but produced hurricane conditions over multiple states. This list does not include storms that only produced tropical storm conditions on land in the United States.
Additionally, three Pacific hurricanes struck Hawaii, and one Pacific tropical cyclone brought hurricane-force winds to California. The tables list hurricanes by category on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, based on winds that occurred in each state.
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A total of 291 Atlantic tropical cyclones have produced hurricane-force winds in every state along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, as well as Pennsylvania. Florida were affected by 118 hurricanes, which was more than any other state; Texas ranked second. Hurricane Donna affected a total of eight states—more than any other hurricane.[1]
The earliest time in the year for a hurricane to strike the nation was June 9, which was set by Hurricane Alma in 1966. The earliest major hurricane to strike the nation occurred in 1934, when an unnamed tropical cyclone made landfall on June 16. The latest in the year for a hurricane to strike the nation was on November 24 with Hurricane Iwa in Hawaii; for the Atlantic basin the latest was on November 22, which was set by Hurricane Kate in 1985. The latest in the year for a major hurricane to strike the nation was from the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane, which moved ashore on October 25.[1]
The 1880s were the most active decade for the United States, with a total of 25 hurricanes affecting the nation. By contrast, the least active decade was the 1970s, with a total of only 12 hurricanes affecting the American coastline. A total of 33 seasons on record passed without an Atlantic hurricane affecting the country—the most recent of which was the 2015 season. Seven Atlantic hurricanes affected the country in the 1886 season, which was the year with the most United States hurricanes.[1]
Impact
The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar. It was one of only three hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; the others were Hurricane Camille in 1969 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which had a landfalling pressure of 900 mbar and 922 mbar, respectively. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the third most intense hurricane to strike the country with a pressure of 920 mbar, though its winds were not as strong as Andrew.[2]
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was the deadliest hurricane in the history of the United States, killing at least 8,000 people. The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane caused at least 2,500 casualties, and in 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed about 1,500 people. In the 1893 season, two hurricanes each caused over 1,000 deaths.[2]
Accounting for inflation, nine Atlantic hurricanes caused a damage total of over $10 billion (2006 USD), including three from the 2005 season. The costliest was Hurricane Katrina, with damage amounting to $84.6 billion, though in normalized dollars it may only be second to the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926. Of the thirty costliest United States hurricanes, ten were after the year 2000.[2]
A 2010 study published in Natural Hazards Review, a journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, "Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United State: 1900-2005" (PDF), analyzed storm-related property damage figures from 1900 through 2005 adjusted ("normalized") for inflation, wealth and population factors over time. The study found that: 1) Using normalized figures, hurricane-related damages steadily increased from 1900 to 2005; 2) Based on the adjusted data, Hurricane Katrina is the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history. The top-ranking storm in terms of property damage is the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, with losses between $140–157 billion in 2005 dollars; 3) While 1996–2005 was the second-most costly period for storm-related damages, the preceding periods of 1976–1985 and 1986–1995 were "anomalously benign," accounting for only 10% of all storm damage reported since 1900; 4) Approximately 85% of all storm-related damages occur in the months of August (35%) and September (50%).[3]
States bordering the Atlantic Ocean
The category listed for each state indicates the maximum category of sustained winds that was recorded or analyzed to have occurred in that state. It is not necessarily the category of the storm at the time of landfall or closest approach (if the strongest winds were occurring elsewhere or only over water at the time).
Alabama
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 3 | August 26 | 1852 | Unnamed | 2 | October 18 | 1916 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 29 | 1917 | Unnamed | 3 | August 21 | 1926 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | August 31 | 1856 | Unnamed | 1 | September 1 | 1932 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 16 | 1859 | Baker | 1 | August 31 | 1950 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 12 | 1860 | Camille | 1 | August 18 | 1969 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 16 | 1860 | Eloise | 1[notes 1] | September 23 | 1975 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | July 30 | 1870 | Frederic | 3 | September 13 | 1979 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | September 10 | 1882 | Elena | 3 | September 2 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 3 | 1893 | Opal | 1[notes 1] | October 4 | 1995 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 15 | 1901 | Danny | 1 | July 19 | 1997 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 27 | 1906 | Ivan | 3 | September 16 | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 14 | 1912 | Dennis | 1[notes 1] | July 10 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | July 5 | 1916 | Katrina | 1 | August 29 | 2005 | |
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT[4] | ||||||||
Connecticut
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1 | September 16 | 1858 | Carol | 3 | August 31 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 8 | 1869 | Donna | 1 | September 12 | 1960 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 24 | 1893 | Agnes | 1 | June 22 | 1972 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 10 | 1894 | Gloria | 2 | September 27 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 21 | 1938 | Bob | 2 | August 19 | 1991 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 15 | 1944 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
Delaware
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1 | October 23 | 1878 | |||||
| Unnamed | 1 | September 16 | 1903 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
Florida
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 3 | August 23 | 1851 | Unnamed | 1 | October 21 | 1924 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 26 | 1852 | Unnamed | 2 | July 27 | 1926 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 12 | 1852 | Unnamed | 4 | September 18 | 1926 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 9 | 1852 | Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | October 21 | 1926 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 8 | 1854 | Unnamed | 2 | August 8 | 1928 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 31 | 1856 | Unnamed | 4 | September 17 | 1928 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 16 | 1859 | Unnamed | 3 | September 28 | 1929 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 28 | 1859 | Unnamed | 1 | September 1 | 1932 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | August 16 | 1861 | Unnamed | 1 | July 30 | 1933 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 23 | 1865 | Unnamed | 3 | September 4 | 1933 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 6 | 1867 | "Labor Day" | 5 | September 3 | 1935 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | October 9 | 1870 | Unnamed | 2 | November 4 | 1935 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 20 | 1870 | Unnamed | 2 | July 31 | 1936 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 16 | 1871 | Unnamed | 1 | August 11 | 1939 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 25 | 1871 | Unnamed | 2 | October 6 | 1941 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 6 | 1871 | Unnamed | 3 | October 19 | 1944 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 19 | 1873 | Unnamed | 1 | June 24 | 1945 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | October 7 | 1873 | Unnamed | 3 | September 15 | 1945 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 28 | 1874 | Unnamed | 1 | October 8 | 1946 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 20 | 1876 | Unnamed | 4 | September 17 | 1947 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 19 | 1877 | Unnamed | 1 | October 11 | 1947 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | October 3 | 1877 | Unnamed | 4 | September 21 | 1948 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 10 | 1878 | Unnamed | 2 | October 5 | 1948 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 29 | 1880 | Unnamed | 4 | August 26 | 1949 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 8 | 1880 | Easy | 3 | September 5 | 1950 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 10 | 1882 | King | 4 | October 18 | 1950 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 11 | 1882 | Florence | 1 | September 26 | 1953 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 24 | 1885 | Hazel | 1 | October 9 | 1953 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | June 21 | 1886 | Flossy | 1 | September 24 | 1956 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | June 30 | 1886 | Donna | 4 | September 10 | 1960 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | July 18 | 1886 | Cleo | 2 | August 27 | 1964 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | July 27 | 1887 | Dora | 2 | September 10 | 1964 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 16 | 1888 | Isbell | 2 | October 14 | 1964 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 11 | 1888 | Betsy | 3 | September 8 | 1965 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 24 | 1891 | Alma | 2 | June 9 | 1966 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 27 | 1893 | Inez | 1 | October 8 | 1966 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 25 | 1894 | Gladys | 2 | October 19 | 1968 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | October 9 | 1894 | Agnes | 1 | June 19 | 1972 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | July 7 | 1896 | Eloise | 3 | September 23 | 1975 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 29 | 1896 | David | 2 | September 3 | 1979 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 3 | 1898 | Elena | 3 | September 1 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 2 | 1898 | Kate | 2 | November 21 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 1 | 1899 | Floyd | 1 | October 12 | 1987 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 11 | 1903 | Andrew | 5 | August 24 | 1992 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 17 | 1904 | Erin | 2 | August 3 | 1995 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | June 16 | 1906 | Opal | 3 | October 4 | 1995 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 27 | 1906 | Earl | 1 | September 3 | 1998 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | October 18 | 1906 | Georges | 2 | September 25 | 1998 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | October 11 | 1909 | Irene | 1 | October 15 | 1999 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 18 | 1910 | Charley | 4 | August 13 | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 11 | 1911 | Frances | 2 | September 5 | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 14 | 1912 | Ivan | 3 | September 16 | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 1 | 1915 | Jeanne | 3 | September 26 | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 4 | 1915 | Dennis | 3 | July 10 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | July 5 | 1916 | Katrina | 1 | August 25 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 18 | 1916 | Rita | 1[notes 2] | September 20 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 29 | 1917 | Wilma | 3 | October 24 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 4 | September 10 | 1919 | Hermine | 1 | September 2 | 2016 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | October 25 | 1921 | Matthew | 2[notes 2] | October 7 | 2016 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 15 | 1924 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
Georgia
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | August 24 | 1851 | Unnamed | 2 | September 29 | 1896 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | October 10 | 1852 | Unnamed | 1 | August 31 | 1898 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 21 | 1853 | Unnamed | 4 | October 2 | 1898 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 8 | 1854 | Unnamed | 1 | August 28 | 1911 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | August 31 | 1856 | Unnamed | 1 | September 18 | 1928 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | October 3 | 1877 | "Labor Day" | 1[notes 1] | September 5 | 1935 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 11 | 1878 | Unnamed | 1 | August 11 | 1940 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 28 | 1881 | Unnamed | 2 | October 15 | 1947 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 25 | 1885 | Unnamed | 1 | August 27 | 1949 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | June 21 | 1886 | David | 2 | September 4 | 1979 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | June 30 | 1886 | Kate | 1[notes 1] | November 22 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 28 | 1893 | Matthew | 1[notes 2] | October 8 | 2016 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | October 9 | 1894 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT[4] | ||||||||
Louisiana
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 2 | August 25 | 1852 | Unnamed | 3 | August 26 | 1926 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 16 | 1855 | Unnamed | 2 | June 16 | 1934 | |
| Unnamed | 4 | August 11 | 1856 | Unnamed | 1 | August 15 | 1938 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 11 | 1860 | Unnamed | 2 | August 7 | 1940 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 15 | 1860 | Unnamed | 2 | September 19 | 1947 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 2 | 1860 | Unnamed | 1 | September 4 | 1948 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 13 | 1865 | Flossy | 2 | September 24 | 1956 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 4 | 1867 | Audrey | 3 | June 27 | 1957 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 5 | 1869 | Ethel | 1 | September 15 | 1964 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 18 | 1877 | Hilda | 3 | October 3 | 1964 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 23 | 1879 | Betsy | 3 | September 10 | 1965 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 1 | 1879 | Camille | 5 | August 17 | 1969 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | June 14 | 1886 | Edith | 2 | September 16 | 1971 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | October 12 | 1886 | Carmen | 3 | September 8 | 1974 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 19 | 1887 | Babe | 1 | September 5 | 1977 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 19 | 1888 | Bob | 1 | September 11 | 1979 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 23 | 1889 | Danny | 1 | August 15 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 7 | 1893 | Juan | 1 | October 28 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 4 | October 2 | 1893 | Florence | 1 | September 10 | 1988 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 12 | 1897 | Andrew | 3 | August 26 | 1992 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 14 | 1901 | Danny | 1 | July 18 | 1997 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 27 | 1906 | Lili | 1 | October 3 | 2002 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 20 | 1909 | Cindy | 1 | July 6 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 17 | 1915 | Katrina | 3 | August 29 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 29 | 1915 | Rita | 3 | September 24 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 29 | 1917 | Humberto | 1 | September 13 | 2007 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 7 | 1918 | Gustav | 2 | September 1 | 2008 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 21 | ||||||
| Unnamed | 1 | October 16 | 1923 | Isaac | 1 | August 28 | 2012 | |
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT[4] | ||||||||
Maine
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 2 | October 4 | 1869 | |||||
| Gerda | 1 | September 10 | 1969 | |||||
| Gloria | 1 | September 27 | 1985 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
Maryland
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1 | October 23 | 1878 | |||||
| Unnamed | 1 | August 23 | 1933 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
Massachusetts
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1 | September 16 | 1858 | Unnamed | 2 | September 21 | 1938 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 8 | 1869 | Unnamed | 1 | September 15 | 1944 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 4 | 1869 | Carol | 2 | August 31 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 19 | 1879 | Edna | 2 | September 11 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 10 | 1896 | Donna | 1 | September 12 | 1960 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 26 | 1924 | Bob | 2 | August 19 | 1991 | |
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
Mississippi
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 3 | August 26 | 1852 | Unnamed | 3 | July 6 | 1916 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 16 | 1855 | Unnamed | 1 | October 16 | 1923 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 12 | 1860 | Unnamed | 1 | September 21 | 1926 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 15 | 1860 | Unnamed | 2 | September 19 | 1947 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | August 20 | 1888 | Ethel | 1 | September 15 | 1960 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 2 | 1893 | Camille | 5 | August 18 | 1969 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 15 | 1901 | Frederic | 3 | September 13 | 1979 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 27 | 1906 | Elena | 3 | September 2 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 21 | 1909 | Georges | 2 | September 29 | 1998 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 29 | 1915 | Katrina | 3 | August 29 | 2005 | |
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
New Hampshire
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gloria | 2 | September 27 | 1985 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
New Jersey
Although Hurricane Sandy struck the state in October 2012 and produced hurricane-force winds, it became an extratropical cyclone before landfall or producing any hurricane-strength winds.[5]
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | October 23 | 1878 | |||||
| Unnamed | 1 | September 16 | 1903 | |||||
| Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | September 8 | 1934 | |||||
| Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | September 14 | 1944 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
New York
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1 | September 16 | 1858 | Edna | 1 | September 11 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 8 | 1869 | Donna | 2 | September 12 | 1960 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 24 | 1893 | Agnes | 1 | June 22 | 1972 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 10 | 1894 | Belle | 1 | August 10 | 1976 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 8 | 1934 | Gloria | 3 | September 27 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 21 | 1938 | Bob | 2 | August 19 | 1991 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 15 | 1944 | Sandy | 1[notes 3] | October 29 | 2012 | |
| Carol | 3 | August 31 | 1954 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
North Carolina
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1 | September 13 | 1857 | Unnamed | 2[notes 2] | September 14 | 1944 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 27 | 1861 | Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | August 24 | 1949 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | November 2 | 1861 | Barbara | 1 | August 14 | 1953 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 24 | 1874 | Carol | 1[notes 2] | August 31 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 17 | 1876 | Edna | 1[notes 2] | September 11 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 23 | 1878 | Hazel | 4 | October 15 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 18 | 1879 | Connie | 2 | August 12 | 1955 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 9 | 1880 | Ione | 2 | September 19 | 1955 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 9 | 1881 | Helene | 3[notes 2] | September 27 | 1958 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 11 | 1883 | Donna | 2 | September 12 | 1960 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 25 | 1885 | Ginger | 1 | September 30 | 1971 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | August 20 | 1887 | Diana | 2 | September 13 | 1984 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | August 28 | 1893 | Gloria | 3 | September 27 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 13 | 1893 | Charley | 1 | August 17 | 1986 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | September 29 | 1896 | Hugo | 1[notes 1] | September 22 | 1989 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 18 | 1899 | Emily | 3[notes 2] | August 31 | 1993 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 31 | 1899 | Bertha | 2 | July 12 | 1996 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | July 11 | 1901 | Fran | 3 | September 6 | 1996 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 17 | 1906 | Bonnie | 2 | August 27 | 1998 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | July 31 | 1908 | Floyd | 2 | September 16 | 1999 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 3 | 1913 | Irene | 2[notes 2] | October 18 | 1999 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 24 | 1918 | Isabel | 2 | September 18 | 2003 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | August 26 | 1924 | Alex | 1[notes 2] | August 3 | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 23 | 1933 | Charley | 1 | August 14 | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 2[notes 2] | September 16 | 1933 | Ophelia | 1[notes 2] | September 14 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | September 9 | 1934 | Irene | 1 | August 27 | 2011 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 18 | 1936 | Arthur | 2 | July 4 | 2014 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 1 | 1944 | Matthew | 1[notes 2] | October 8 | 2016 | |
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT[4] | ||||||||
Pennsylvania
Though not directly bordering the Atlantic Ocean, the Gale of 1878 produced hurricane-force winds in the state, the only tropical cyclone on record to do so.[1] Furthermore, Hurricane Agnes (1972) had a severe impact on the state. Although it had been only a Category 1 storm, and had weakened to a tropical depression by the time it reached Pennsylvania, Hurricane Agnes nevertheless caused severe flooding, as well as enormous economic damage.
Rhode Island
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1 | September 16 | 1858 | Unnamed | 2 | September 15 | 1944 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 8 | 1869 | Carol | 3 | August 31 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 10 | 1894 | Edna | 1 | September 11 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 10 | 1896 | Donna | 1 | September 12 | 1960 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 21 | 1938 | Bob | 2 | August 19 | 1991 | |
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
South Carolina
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 2 | September 8 | 1854 | Unnamed | 1 | October 8 | 1913 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | June 22 | 1867 | Unnamed | 2 | July 14 | 1916 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 28 | 1874 | Unnamed | 1 | September 18 | 1928 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 12 | 1878 | Unnamed | 2 | August 11 | 1940 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 28 | 1881 | Unnamed | 2 | October 15 | 1947 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 11 | 1883 | Able | 2 | August 31 | 1952 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 25 | 1885 | Hazel | 4 | October 15 | 1954 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | August 28 | 1893 | Cindy | 1 | July 9 | 1959 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | October 13 | 1893 | Gracie | 4 | September 29 | 1959 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 27 | 1894 | David | 2 | September 4 | 1979 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 29 | 1896 | Bob | 1 | July 25 | 1985 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 31 | 1898 | Hugo | 4 | September 22 | 1989 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 31 | 1899 | Charley | 1 | August 14 | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 14 | 1904 | Gaston | 1 | August 29 | 2004 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 17 | 1906 | Matthew | 1 | October 8 | 2016 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 28 | 1911 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
Texas
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1 | June 25 | 1851 | Unnamed | 4 | August 14 | 1932 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | June 26 | 1854 | Unnamed | 2[notes 4] | August 7 | 1933 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 18 | 1854 | Unnamed | 3 | September 5 | 1933 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 13 | 1865 | Unnamed | 2 | July 25 | 1934 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | July 15 | 1866 | Unnamed | 1 | June 27 | 1936 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 2 | 1867 | Unnamed | 2 | August 8 | 1940 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 17 | 1869 | Unnamed | 3 | September 23 | 1941 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 16 | 1875 | Unnamed | 1 | August 21 | 1942 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 23 | 1879 | Unnamed | 3 | August 30 | 1942 | |
| Unnamed | 3[notes 4] | August 13 | 1880 | Unnamed | 2 | July 27 | 1943 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | June 14 | 1886 | Unnamed | 2 | August 27 | 1945 | |
| Unnamed | 4 | August 20 | 1886 | Unnamed | 1 | August 24 | 1947 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 4] | September 23 | 1886 | Unnamed | 2 | October 4 | 1949 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 12 | 1886 | Audrey | 2 | June 27 | 1957 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 21 | 1887 | Debra | 1 | July 25 | 1959 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | June 17 | 1888 | Carla | 4 | September 11 | 1961 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | July 5 | 1891 | Cindy | 1 | September 17 | 1963 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 4] | August 30 | 1895 | Beulah | 3 | September 20 | 1967 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 13 | 1897 | Celia | 3 | August 3 | 1970 | |
| Unnamed | 4 | September 9 | 1900 | Fern | 1 | September 10 | 1971 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | June 29 | 1909 | Allen | 3 | August 10 | 1980 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | July 21 | 1909 | Alicia | 3 | August 18 | 1983 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 4] | August 27 | 1909 | Bonnie | 1 | June 28 | 1986 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | September 14 | 1910 | Chantal | 1 | August 1 | 1989 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | October 16 | 1912 | Jerry | 1 | October 16 | 1989 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | June 27 | 1913 | Bret | 3 | August 23 | 1999 | |
| Unnamed | 4 | August 17 | 1915 | Claudette | 1 | July 15 | 2003 | |
| Unnamed | 4 | August 18 | 1916 | Rita | 2 | September 24 | 2005 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 7 | 1918 | Humberto | 1 | September 13 | 2007 | |
| Unnamed | 3 | September 14 | 1919 | Dolly | 1 | July 23 | 2008 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | June 22 | 1921 | Ike | 2 | September 13 | 2008 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | June 28 | 1929 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
Virginia
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | 1 | September 17 | 1876 | Unnamed | 1[notes 2] | September 16 | 1933 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | October 23 | 1878 | Unnamed | 1 | September 18 | 1936 | |
| Unnamed | 2 | August 18 | 1879 | Unnamed | 2[notes 2] | September 14 | 1944 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | October 13 | 1893 | Connie | 1 | August 12 | 1955 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | September 29 | 1894 | Donna | 1[notes 2] | September 12 | 1960 | |
| Unnamed | 1[notes 1] | September 30 | 1896 | Isabel | 1 | September 18 | 2003 | |
| Unnamed | 1 | August 23 | 1933 | |||||
| Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012[1] | ||||||||
States bordering the Pacific Ocean
Southwestern United States
The 1858 San Diego Hurricane is the only Pacific tropical cyclone known to have produced hurricane-force winds in California; it affected San Diego on October 2, 1858, though its center remained just offshore. In the 20th century, only four tropical cyclones produced tropical storm force winds in the southwestern United States: a tropical storm in September 1939 in California, Hurricane Joanne in October 1972 in Arizona, Hurricane Kathleen in September 1976 in Arizona and California, and Hurricane Nora in September 1997 in Arizona.[6]
Hawaii
| Name | Saffir-Simpson Category |
Date of closest approach | Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dot | 1 | August 7 | 1959 | |||||
| Iwa | 1 | November 24 | 1982 | |||||
| Iniki | 4 | September 11 | 1992 | |||||
| Source: 1959 Central Pacific Hurricane Season[7] 1982 Central Pacific Hurricane Season[8] 1992 Central Pacific Hurricane Season[9] | ||||||||
Climatological statistics
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See also
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Hurricane conditions in this state were limited to inland areas.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 This hurricane did not made landfall, but produced hurricane conditions over the state indicated.
- ↑ This storm became extratropical before landfall, but produced hurricane conditions over the state indicated while still a tropical cyclone.
- 1 2 3 4 5 This hurricane made landfall in Mexico but produced hurricane conditions in Texas.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Hurricane Research Division (2012). "Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States: 1851-2012". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Archived from the original on 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
- 1 2 3 Eric S. Blake; Edward N. Rappaport; Christopher W. Landsea (2007). "The Deadliest, Costliest, and Most Intense United States Tropical Cyclones From 1851 to 2006" (PDF). National Hurricane Center. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ↑ "Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005". Journalist's Resource.org.
- 1 2 3 4 Hurricane Research Division (2008). "Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
- ↑ Eric S. Blake; et al. (2013-02-12). Hurricane Sandy Tropical Cyclone Report (PDF) (Report). National Hurricane Center. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
- ↑ Michael Chenoweth & Chris Landsea (2004). "The San Diego Hurricane of October 2, 1858" (PDF). American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ↑ Central Pacific Hurricane Season. "1959 Central Pacific Hurricane Season". Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ↑ Central Pacific Hurricane Season. "1982 Central Pacific Hurricane Season". Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ↑ Central Pacific Hurricane Season. "1992 Central Pacific Hurricane Season". Retrieved 2008-01-26.
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