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NHC AL021957 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Audrey (1957)

June 24, 1957 – June 29, 1957

Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated

Hurricane Audrey peaked at Category 3 with 127 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 965 US cities, 87 of them while still at hurricane strength.

Audrey in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Audrey from June 24, 1957 to June 29, 1957; its peak was 127 mph (Category 3). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on June 27 at 127 mph (Category 3), 16 miles from Port Arthur, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 965 US cities, in 10 states, most in Tennessee (200) and Kentucky (190). The strongest pass was 127 mph (Category 3) 42 miles from Winnie, TX; the centre came closest to Castalian Springs, TN, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Category 3

127 mph

Cities within 75 mi
965
At hurricane strength
87

when closest

States
10
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Cities Audrey passed near, strongest first

Texas (40)

Louisiana (111)

and 51 more

Arkansas (24)

Mississippi (111)

and 51 more

Ohio (122)

and 62 more

West Virginia (110)

and 50 more

Pennsylvania (30)

Kentucky (190)

and 130 more

Tennessee (200)

and 140 more

Alabama (27)

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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.