NHC AL041980 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Allen (1980)
July 31, 1980 – August 11, 1980
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Allen peaked at Category 5 with 190 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 48 US cities, 44 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Allen in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Allen from July 31, 1980 to August 11, 1980; its peak was 190 mph (Category 5). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 48 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 115 mph (Category 3) 2 miles from South Padre Island, TX; the centre came closest to Laredo, TX, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 5
- Cities within 75 mi
- 48
- At hurricane strength
- 44
- States
- 1
190 mph
when closest
Cities Allen passed near, strongest first
Texas (48)
- South Padre IslandCategory 3 · 2 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 3 · 3 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 3 · 19 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 3 · 9 mi
- OlmitoCategory 3 · 17 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 2 · 3 mi
- San BenitoCategory 2 · 15 mi
- HarlingenCategory 2 · 13 mi
- La FeriaCategory 2 · 21 mi
- LyfordCategory 2 · 3 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 2 · 14 mi
- MercedesCategory 2 · 22 mi
- ProgresoCategory 2 · 29 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 2 · overhead
- EdcouchCategory 2 · 15 mi
- La VillaCategory 2 · 16 mi
- ElsaCategory 2 · 18 mi
- DonnaCategory 2 · 28 mi
- WeslacoCategory 2 · 23 mi
- AlamoCategory 2 · 30 mi
- San JuanCategory 2 · 30 mi
- PharrCategory 2 · 31 mi
- HidalgoCategory 2 · 38 mi
- EdinburgCategory 2 · 21 mi
- McallenCategory 2 · 31 mi
- MissionCategory 2 · 34 mi
- AltonCategory 2 · 21 mi
- PenitasCategory 2 · 38 mi
- La JoyaCategory 2 · 40 mi
- Sullivan CityCategory 2 · 41 mi
- Rio Grande CityCategory 1 · 36 mi
- FalfurriasCategory 1 · 26 mi
- KingsvilleCategory 1 · 53 mi
- BishopCategory 1 · 62 mi
- RobstownCategory 1 · 75 mi
- PremontCategory 1 · 36 mi
- RomaCategory 1 · 45 mi
- AliceCategory 1 · 58 mi
- HebbronvilleCategory 1 · 3 mi
- Orange GroveCategory 1 · 71 mi
- San DiegoCategory 1 · 44 mi
- ZapataCategory 1 · 30 mi
- FreerCategory 1 · 51 mi
- LaredoCategory 1 · overhead
- CotullaTropical storm · 62 mi
- Carrizo SpringsTropical storm · 54 mi
- Crystal CityTropical storm · 65 mi
- Eagle PassTropical storm · 55 mi
Other storms of the 1980 season
- DanielleTropical storm · 136 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.