NHC AL011959 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Arlene (1959)
May 28, 1959 – June 2, 1959
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Arlene peaked at Tropical storm with 63 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 121 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Arlene in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Arlene from May 28, 1959 to June 2, 1959; its peak was 63 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on May 30 at 63 mph (tropical storm), 12 miles from Franklin, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 121 US cities, in 2 states, most in Louisiana (116). The strongest pass was 63 mph (tropical storm) 5 miles from Franklin, LA.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 121
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 2
63 mph
when closest
Cities Arlene passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (116)
- FranklinTropical storm · 5 mi
- PattersonTropical storm · 17 mi
- BerwickTropical storm · 22 mi
- Morgan CityTropical storm · 25 mi
- AbbevilleTropical storm · 34 mi
- KaplanTropical storm · 45 mi
- GrayTropical storm · 50 mi
- HoumaTropical storm · 53 mi
- GueydanTropical storm · 58 mi
- ChauvinTropical storm · 61 mi
- MontegutTropical storm · 66 mi
- LockportTropical storm · 67 mi
- LaroseTropical storm · 70 mi
- Lake ArthurTropical storm · 70 mi
- DelcambreTropical storm · 25 mi
- ErathTropical storm · 28 mi
- JeaneretteTropical storm · 6 mi
- New IberiaTropical storm · 16 mi
- SchrieverTropical storm · 46 mi
- MorseTropical storm · 59 mi
- MauriceTropical storm · 36 mi
- ThibodauxTropical storm · 45 mi
- RacelandTropical storm · 59 mi
- JenningsTropical storm · 69 mi
- Pierre PartTropical storm · 21 mi
- YoungsvilleTropical storm · 29 mi
- CrowleyTropical storm · 53 mi
- BroussardTropical storm · 27 mi
- NapoleonvilleTropical storm · 31 mi
- DusonTropical storm · 40 mi
- RayneTropical storm · 46 mi
- Saint MartinvilleTropical storm · 18 mi
- LafayetteTropical storm · 33 mi
- ScottTropical storm · 37 mi
- IotaTropical storm · 61 mi
- Des AllemandsTropical storm · 66 mi
- Belle RoseTropical storm · 26 mi
- VacherieTropical storm · 48 mi
- BoutteTropical storm · 68 mi
- Breaux BridgeTropical storm · 25 mi
- DonaldsonvilleTropical storm · 29 mi
- CarencroTropical storm · 35 mi
- PaulinaTropical storm · 45 mi
- BasileTropical storm · 69 mi
- LulingTropical storm · 70 mi
- White CastleTropical storm · 19 mi
- SunsetTropical storm · 39 mi
- LutcherTropical storm · 47 mi
- Church PointTropical storm · 47 mi
- GramercyTropical storm · 47 mi
- EuniceTropical storm · 60 mi
- HahnvilleTropical storm · 65 mi
- DestrehanTropical storm · 67 mi
- Saint RoseTropical storm · 71 mi
- ArnaudvilleTropical storm · 30 mi
- ReserveTropical storm · 55 mi
- NorcoTropical storm · 64 mi
- PlaquemineTropical storm · 11 mi
- GeismarTropical storm · 26 mi
- SorrentoTropical storm · 35 mi
and 56 more
Mississippi (5)
- WoodvilleTropical storm · 50 mi
- CentrevilleTropical storm · 51 mi
- GlosterTropical storm · 61 mi
- LibertyTropical storm · 63 mi
- MagnoliaTropical storm · 75 mi
Other storms of the 1959 season
- Unnamed (AL031959)Category 1 · 190 cities
- CindyCategory 1 · 968 cities
- DebraCategory 1 · 133 cities
- DotCategory 4 · 21 cities
- Unnamed (AL121959)Tropical storm · 15 cities
- GracieCategory 4 · 441 cities
- IreneTropical storm · 69 cities
- JudithCategory 1 · 113 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.