NHC AL021986 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Bonnie (1986)
June 23, 1986 – June 28, 1986
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Bonnie peaked at Category 1 with 86 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 110 US cities, 32 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Bonnie in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Bonnie from June 23, 1986 to June 28, 1986; its peak was 86 mph (Category 1). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on June 26 at 86 mph (Category 1), 19 miles from Winnie, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 110 US cities, in 2 states, most in Texas (103). The strongest pass was 86 mph (Category 1) 31 miles from Crystal Beach, TX; the centre came closest to Sour Lake, TX, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 110
- At hurricane strength
- 32
- States
- 2
86 mph
when closest
Cities Bonnie passed near, strongest first
Texas (103)
- Crystal BeachCategory 1 · 31 mi
- GalvestonCategory 1 · 44 mi
- Texas CityCategory 1 · 47 mi
- La MarqueCategory 1 · 49 mi
- HitchcockCategory 1 · 52 mi
- Santa FeCategory 1 · 56 mi
- DanburyCategory 1 · 73 mi
- DickinsonCategory 1 · 50 mi
- AlvinCategory 1 · 64 mi
- BacliffCategory 1 · 47 mi
- League CityCategory 1 · 53 mi
- KemahCategory 1 · 49 mi
- WebsterCategory 1 · 55 mi
- FriendswoodCategory 1 · 59 mi
- AnahuacCategory 1 · 25 mi
- SeabrookCategory 1 · 49 mi
- ManvelCategory 1 · 69 mi
- Port ArthurCategory 1 · 21 mi
- PearlandCategory 1 · 65 mi
- WinnieCategory 1 · 7 mi
- FresnoCategory 1 · 74 mi
- GrovesCategory 1 · 23 mi
- La PorteCategory 1 · 47 mi
- NederlandCategory 1 · 19 mi
- Port NechesCategory 1 · 21 mi
- Bridge CityCategory 1 · 29 mi
- Deer ParkCategory 1 · 51 mi
- PasadenaCategory 1 · 55 mi
- South HoustonCategory 1 · 58 mi
- OrangeTropical storm · 34 mi
- BaytownTropical storm · 39 mi
- BeaumontTropical storm · 12 mi
- Galena ParkTropical storm · 57 mi
- VidorTropical storm · 22 mi
- HighlandsTropical storm · 44 mi
- ChannelviewTropical storm · 49 mi
- BellaireTropical storm · 70 mi
- HoustonTropical storm · 67 mi
- CrosbyTropical storm · 43 mi
- Sour LakeTropical storm · overhead
- LumbertonTropical storm · 13 mi
- LibertyTropical storm · 23 mi
- DaytonTropical storm · 30 mi
- HuffmanTropical storm · 42 mi
- HumbleTropical storm · 51 mi
- KingwoodTropical storm · 47 mi
- SilsbeeTropical storm · 18 mi
- BunaTropical storm · 31 mi
- TomballTropical storm · 69 mi
- KountzeTropical storm · 9 mi
- PorterTropical storm · 50 mi
- New CaneyTropical storm · 43 mi
- SpringTropical storm · 62 mi
- ClevelandTropical storm · 29 mi
- SplendoraTropical storm · 42 mi
- ShenandoahTropical storm · 58 mi
- The WoodlandsTropical storm · 61 mi
- KirbyvilleTropical storm · 38 mi
- PinehurstTropical storm · 72 mi
- MagnoliaTropical storm · 72 mi
and 43 more
Louisiana (7)
- Lake CharlesCategory 1 · 68 mi
- SulphurCategory 1 · 59 mi
- WestlakeCategory 1 · 66 mi
- VintonTropical storm · 46 mi
- DequincyTropical storm · 62 mi
- LongvilleTropical storm · 74 mi
- MerryvilleTropical storm · 59 mi
Other storms of the 1986 season
- CharleyCategory 1 · 149 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.