NHC AL031983 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Alicia (1983)
August 15, 1983 – August 21, 1983
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Alicia peaked at Category 3 with 115 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 206 US cities, 72 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Alicia in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Alicia from August 15, 1983 to August 21, 1983; its peak was 115 mph (Category 3). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 18 at 115 mph (Category 3), 17 miles from Danbury, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 206 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 115 mph (Category 3) 17 miles from Freeport, TX; the centre came closest to Manvel, TX, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- Cities within 75 mi
- 206
- At hurricane strength
- 72
- States
- 1
115 mph
when closest
Cities Alicia passed near, strongest first
Texas (206)
- FreeportCategory 3 · 17 mi
- GalvestonCategory 3 · 20 mi
- CluteCategory 3 · 18 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 3 · 20 mi
- Crystal BeachCategory 3 · 33 mi
- BrazoriaCategory 3 · 28 mi
- HitchcockCategory 2 · 13 mi
- La MarqueCategory 2 · 16 mi
- Texas CityCategory 2 · 18 mi
- PalaciosCategory 2 · 71 mi
- DanburyCategory 2 · 8 mi
- AngletonCategory 2 · 16 mi
- Santa FeCategory 2 · 10 mi
- SweenyCategory 2 · 34 mi
- Bay CityCategory 2 · 49 mi
- DickinsonCategory 2 · 17 mi
- West ColumbiaCategory 2 · 28 mi
- Van VleckCategory 2 · 44 mi
- BacliffCategory 2 · 20 mi
- AnahuacCategory 2 · 43 mi
- WinnieCategory 2 · 61 mi
- AlvinCategory 2 · 3 mi
- League CityCategory 2 · 15 mi
- KemahCategory 2 · 19 mi
- WebsterCategory 2 · 13 mi
- SeabrookCategory 2 · 20 mi
- FriendswoodCategory 2 · 10 mi
- ManvelCategory 2 · overhead
- RosharonCategory 2 · 7 mi
- La PorteCategory 2 · 23 mi
- PearlandCategory 2 · 4 mi
- BolingCategory 2 · 38 mi
- FresnoCategory 2 · 4 mi
- PasadenaCategory 2 · 16 mi
- Deer ParkCategory 2 · 19 mi
- BaytownCategory 2 · 31 mi
- South HoustonCategory 2 · 13 mi
- Missouri CityCategory 2 · 6 mi
- ChannelviewCategory 2 · 23 mi
- NeedvilleCategory 2 · 27 mi
- HighlandsCategory 2 · 27 mi
- El CampoCategory 2 · 58 mi
- Galena ParkCategory 1 · 15 mi
- WhartonCategory 1 · 44 mi
- Sour LakeCategory 1 · 72 mi
- StaffordCategory 1 · 6 mi
- Sugar LandCategory 1 · 11 mi
- BellaireCategory 1 · 2 mi
- RosenbergCategory 1 · 22 mi
- BeasleyCategory 1 · 30 mi
- RichmondCategory 1 · 18 mi
- CrosbyCategory 1 · 30 mi
- LibertyCategory 1 · 51 mi
- HoustonCategory 1 · 6 mi
- DaytonCategory 1 · 43 mi
- East BernardCategory 1 · 37 mi
- HumbleCategory 1 · 24 mi
- HuffmanCategory 1 · 32 mi
- FulshearCategory 1 · 23 mi
- KatyCategory 1 · 12 mi
and 146 more
Other storms of the 1983 season
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.