NHC AL021998 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Bonnie (1998)
August 19, 1998 – August 31, 1998
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Bonnie peaked at Category 3 with 115 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 144 US cities, 127 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Bonnie in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Bonnie from August 19, 1998 to August 31, 1998; its peak was 115 mph (Category 3). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 27 at 109 mph (Category 2), 3 miles from Hampstead, NC. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 144 US cities, in 3 states, most in North Carolina (132) and South Carolina (8). The strongest pass was 115 mph (Category 3) 72 miles from Murrells Inlet, SC; the centre came closest to Manteo, NC, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- Cities within 75 mi
- 144
- At hurricane strength
- 127
- States
- 3
115 mph
when closest
Cities Bonnie passed near, strongest first
South Carolina (8)
- Murrells InletCategory 3 · 72 mi
- Myrtle BeachCategory 3 · 69 mi
- Surfside BeachCategory 3 · 69 mi
- Little RiverCategory 3 · 52 mi
- North Myrtle BeachCategory 3 · 54 mi
- LongsCategory 3 · 59 mi
- LorisCategory 3 · 68 mi
- Green SeaCategory 2 · 72 mi
North Carolina (132)
- Sunset BeachCategory 3 · 45 mi
- CalabashCategory 3 · 49 mi
- SouthportCategory 3 · 20 mi
- Oak IslandCategory 3 · 24 mi
- SupplyCategory 3 · 34 mi
- ShallotteCategory 3 · 39 mi
- Ocean Isle BeachCategory 3 · 42 mi
- Wrightsville BeachCategory 2 · 6 mi
- WilmingtonCategory 2 · 10 mi
- Rocky PointCategory 2 · 11 mi
- Carolina BeachCategory 2 · 11 mi
- Castle HayneCategory 2 · 12 mi
- Kure BeachCategory 2 · 12 mi
- BurgawCategory 2 · 17 mi
- WinnabowCategory 2 · 20 mi
- LelandCategory 2 · 21 mi
- CurrieCategory 2 · 23 mi
- BoliviaCategory 2 · 28 mi
- WillardCategory 2 · 28 mi
- WallaceCategory 2 · 28 mi
- AtkinsonCategory 2 · 29 mi
- TeacheyCategory 2 · 31 mi
- DelcoCategory 2 · 32 mi
- RiegelwoodCategory 2 · 33 mi
- Rose HillCategory 2 · 35 mi
- BoltonCategory 2 · 39 mi
- MagnoliaCategory 2 · 39 mi
- HarrellsCategory 2 · 41 mi
- AshCategory 2 · 45 mi
- Lake WaccamawCategory 2 · 47 mi
- GarlandCategory 2 · 48 mi
- ElizabethtownCategory 2 · 53 mi
- ClarktonCategory 2 · 54 mi
- ClintonCategory 2 · 55 mi
- NakinaCategory 2 · 55 mi
- WhitevilleCategory 2 · 57 mi
- RoseboroCategory 2 · 60 mi
- BladenboroCategory 2 · 62 mi
- SalemburgCategory 2 · 64 mi
- Tabor CityCategory 2 · 64 mi
- ChadbournCategory 2 · 64 mi
- AutryvilleCategory 2 · 67 mi
- Newton GroveCategory 2 · 69 mi
- StedmanCategory 2 · 71 mi
- GodwinCategory 2 · 75 mi
- HampsteadCategory 2 · 1 mi
- WarsawCategory 2 · 46 mi
- FaisonCategory 2 · 56 mi
- Holly RidgeCategory 2 · overhead
- Sneads FerryCategory 2 · 3 mi
- Maple HillCategory 2 · 15 mi
- BeulavilleCategory 1 · 30 mi
- KenansvilleCategory 1 · 40 mi
- Camp LejeuneCategory 1 · 1 mi
- Midway ParkCategory 1 · 2 mi
- Tarawa TerraceCategory 1 · 5 mi
- JacksonvilleCategory 1 · 8 mi
- RichlandsCategory 1 · 20 mi
- Mount OliveCategory 1 · 54 mi
- HubertCategory 1 · 4 mi
and 72 more
Virginia (4)
- Virginia BeachCategory 1 · 66 mi
- NorfolkCategory 1 · 75 mi
- ChesapeakeCategory 1 · 68 mi
- PortsmouthCategory 1 · 74 mi
Other storms of the 1998 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.