NHC AL131967 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Beulah (1967)
September 5, 1967 – September 24, 1967
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Beulah peaked at Category 5 with 161 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 59 US cities, 46 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Beulah in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Beulah for 19 days, from September 5, 1967 to September 24, 1967. Its first position, at 13.4°N 57.0°W, records it as a tropical depression; its last, at 21.0°N 96.7°W, as a tropical depression. It reached tropical-storm strength on September 7, hurricane strength on September 8 and major-hurricane strength on September 9. Its peak was 161 mph (140 knots), Category 5, on September 20, and its lowest central pressure was 923 millibars on September 19. It spent about 10 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 20 at 127 mph (Category 3), 13 miles from Port Isabel, TX. It has 3 more landfalls in the record farther from the cities here. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 59 US cities, in 2 states and territories, most in Texas (51), between September 10 and September 21. The strongest pass was 139 mph (Category 4) 68 miles from Ensenada, PR; the centre came closest to Raymondville, TX, 1 mile away. 46 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 15 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 21% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 3rd of the 5 storms of 1967 here.
- Peak strength
- Category 5
- Cities within 75 mi
- 59
- At hurricane strength
- 46
- States
- 2
161 mph
when closest
Cities Beulah passed near, strongest first
Puerto Rico (8)
- EnsenadaCategory 4 · 68 mi
- GuanicaCategory 4 · 71 mi
- BoqueronCategory 4 · 62 mi
- LajasCategory 4 · 67 mi
- Cabo RojoCategory 4 · 68 mi
- San GermanCategory 4 · 72 mi
- HormiguerosCategory 4 · 72 mi
- Sabana GrandeCategory 4 · 74 mi
Texas (51)
- South Padre IslandCategory 3 · 11 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 3 · 6 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 3 · 11 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 3 · 2 mi
- OlmitoCategory 3 · 10 mi
- San BenitoCategory 3 · 10 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 3 · 1 mi
- HarlingenCategory 2 · 10 mi
- La FeriaCategory 2 · 18 mi
- MercedesCategory 2 · 20 mi
- ProgresoCategory 2 · 27 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 2 · 12 mi
- LyfordCategory 2 · overhead
- DonnaCategory 2 · 27 mi
- La VillaCategory 2 · 15 mi
- AlamoCategory 2 · 30 mi
- ElsaCategory 2 · 18 mi
- San JuanCategory 2 · 31 mi
- HidalgoCategory 2 · 39 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 2 · overhead
- EdcouchCategory 2 · 15 mi
- EdinburgCategory 2 · 24 mi
- WeslacoCategory 2 · 24 mi
- PharrCategory 2 · 32 mi
- McallenCategory 2 · 33 mi
- MissionCategory 2 · 37 mi
- PenitasCategory 2 · 43 mi
- La JoyaCategory 2 · 46 mi
- AltonCategory 2 · 26 mi
- Sullivan CityCategory 2 · 48 mi
- Rio Grande CityCategory 1 · 49 mi
- Corpus ChristiCategory 1 · 65 mi
- FalfurriasCategory 1 · 7 mi
- KingsvilleCategory 1 · 33 mi
- BishopCategory 1 · 42 mi
- PremontCategory 1 · 16 mi
- RobstownCategory 1 · 55 mi
- OdemCategory 1 · 67 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 75 mi
- AliceTropical storm · 34 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 47 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 58 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 63 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 21 mi
- George WestTropical storm · 62 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 31 mi
- CotullaTropical storm · 72 mi
- HebbronvilleTropical storm · 17 mi
- ZapataTropical storm · 30 mi
- RomaTropical storm · 56 mi
- LaredoTropical storm · 33 mi
Other storms of the 1967 season
- Unnamed (AL031967)Tropical storm · 118 cities
- KatrinaCategory 1 · 5 cities
- DoriaCategory 2 · 113 cities
- Unnamed (AL231967)Tropical storm · 3 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.