NHC AL021998 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Bonnie (1998)
August 19, 1998 – August 31, 1998
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.
- 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
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
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
Virginia (4)
- Virginia BeachCategory 1 · 66 mi
- NorfolkCategory 1 · 75 mi
- ChesapeakeCategory 1 · 68 mi
- PortsmouthCategory 1 · 74 mi
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.