NHC AL041983 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Barry (1983)
August 23, 1983 – August 29, 1983
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Barry peaked at Category 1 with 81 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 58 US cities, 6 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Barry in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Barry from August 23, 1983 to August 29, 1983; its peak was 81 mph (Category 1). HURDAT2 marks 2 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site, the first on August 25 at 35 mph (tropical depression), 5 miles from Grant, FL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 58 US cities, in 2 states, most in Texas (32). The strongest pass was 81 mph (Category 1) 37 miles from Brownsville, TX.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 58
- At hurricane strength
- 6
- States
- 2
81 mph
when closest
Cities Barry passed near, strongest first
Texas (32)
- BrownsvilleCategory 1 · 37 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 1 · 48 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 1 · 46 mi
- South Padre IslandCategory 1 · 48 mi
- OlmitoCategory 1 · 43 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 1 · 59 mi
- San BenitoTropical storm · 48 mi
- HarlingenTropical storm · 54 mi
- LyfordTropical storm · 67 mi
- La FeriaTropical storm · 49 mi
- Santa RosaTropical storm · 58 mi
- RaymondvilleTropical storm · 73 mi
- MercedesTropical storm · 50 mi
- La VillaTropical storm · 59 mi
- ProgresoTropical storm · 44 mi
- EdcouchTropical storm · 62 mi
- ElsaTropical storm · 58 mi
- DonnaTropical storm · 49 mi
- AlamoTropical storm · 49 mi
- WeslacoTropical storm · 56 mi
- San JuanTropical storm · 50 mi
- EdinburgTropical storm · 60 mi
- PharrTropical storm · 50 mi
- HidalgoTropical storm · 43 mi
- McallenTropical storm · 52 mi
- AltonTropical storm · 64 mi
- MissionTropical storm · 52 mi
- La JoyaTropical storm · 51 mi
- PenitasTropical storm · 52 mi
- Sullivan CityTropical storm · 53 mi
- Rio Grande CityTropical storm · 65 mi
- RomaTropical storm · 69 mi
Florida (26)
- SebastianTropical storm · 44 mi
- Barefoot BayTropical storm · 44 mi
- GrantTropical storm · 45 mi
- Melbourne BeachTropical storm · 45 mi
- Vero BeachTropical storm · 46 mi
- MalabarTropical storm · 47 mi
- IndialanticTropical storm · 48 mi
- Indian Harbour BeachTropical storm · 50 mi
- Fort PierceTropical storm · 51 mi
- FellsmereTropical storm · 51 mi
- Palm BayTropical storm · 52 mi
- MelbourneTropical storm · 54 mi
- Cocoa BeachTropical storm · 54 mi
- Cape CanaveralTropical storm · 56 mi
- Jensen BeachTropical storm · 58 mi
- Merritt IslandTropical storm · 60 mi
- RockledgeTropical storm · 60 mi
- Port St LucieTropical storm · 60 mi
- StuartTropical storm · 64 mi
- Palm CityTropical storm · 66 mi
- CocoaTropical storm · 66 mi
- HarmonyTropical storm · 74 mi
- TitusvilleTropical storm · 74 mi
- Hobe SoundTropical storm · 60 mi
- TequestaTropical storm · 68 mi
- JupiterTropical storm · 71 mi
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.