NHC AL031954 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Alice (1954)
June 24, 1954 – June 27, 1954
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Alice peaked at Category 2 with 109 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 47 US cities, 14 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Alice in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Alice from June 24, 1954 to June 27, 1954; its peak was 109 mph (Category 2). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 47 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 84 mph (Category 1) 68 miles from South Padre Island, TX; the centre came closest to Zapata, TX, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 47
- At hurricane strength
- 14
- States
- 1
109 mph
when closest
Cities Alice passed near, strongest first
Texas (47)
- South Padre IslandCategory 1 · 68 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 1 · 45 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 1 · 62 mi
- OlmitoCategory 1 · 45 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 1 · 54 mi
- San BenitoCategory 1 · 45 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 1 · 56 mi
- La FeriaCategory 1 · 37 mi
- HarlingenCategory 1 · 45 mi
- ProgresoCategory 1 · 27 mi
- MercedesCategory 1 · 34 mi
- DonnaCategory 1 · 27 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 1 · 42 mi
- LyfordCategory 1 · 53 mi
- HidalgoTropical storm · 15 mi
- AlamoTropical storm · 24 mi
- La VillaTropical storm · 39 mi
- PharrTropical storm · 22 mi
- San JuanTropical storm · 23 mi
- WeslacoTropical storm · 30 mi
- ElsaTropical storm · 35 mi
- EdcouchTropical storm · 39 mi
- RaymondvilleTropical storm · 53 mi
- McallenTropical storm · 21 mi
- EdinburgTropical storm · 30 mi
- MissionTropical storm · 17 mi
- La JoyaTropical storm · 9 mi
- PenitasTropical storm · 11 mi
- AltonTropical storm · 29 mi
- Sullivan CityTropical storm · 7 mi
- Rio Grande CityTropical storm · 8 mi
- RomaTropical storm · 5 mi
- FalfurriasTropical storm · 66 mi
- PremontTropical storm · 73 mi
- ZapataTropical storm · overhead
- HebbronvilleTropical storm · 34 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 71 mi
- LaredoTropical storm · 8 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 69 mi
- CotullaTropical storm · 54 mi
- DilleyTropical storm · 65 mi
- Carrizo SpringsTropical storm · 27 mi
- Crystal CityTropical storm · 35 mi
- Eagle PassTropical storm · 3 mi
- Del RioTropical storm · 45 mi
- UvaldeTropical storm · 57 mi
- BrackettvilleTropical storm · 35 mi
Other storms of the 1954 season
- Unnamed (AL011954)Tropical storm · 27 cities
- Unnamed (AL021954)Tropical storm · 17 cities
- Unnamed (AL041954)Tropical storm · 77 cities
- BarbaraTropical storm · 83 cities
- CarolCategory 3 · 1,005 cities
- EdnaCategory 3 · 322 cities
- HazelCategory 4 · 1,223 cities
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.