NHC AL101974 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Carmen (1974)
August 29, 1974 – September 10, 1974
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Carmen peaked at Category 4 with 155 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 150 US cities, 95 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Carmen in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Carmen from August 29, 1974 to September 10, 1974; its peak was 155 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks 2 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site, the first on September 8 at 115 mph (Category 3), 20 miles from Franklin, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 150 US cities, in 2 states, most in Louisiana (122). The strongest pass was 121 mph (Category 3) 58 miles from Addis, LA; the centre came closest to Abbeville, LA, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 150
- At hurricane strength
- 95
- States
- 2
155 mph
when closest
Cities Carmen passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (122)
- AddisCategory 3 · 58 mi
- PlaquemineCategory 3 · 55 mi
- Golden MeadowCategory 3 · 60 mi
- BruslyCategory 3 · 60 mi
- Baton RougeCategory 3 · 69 mi
- New IberiaCategory 3 · 17 mi
- JeaneretteCategory 3 · 20 mi
- GallianoCategory 3 · 63 mi
- ChauvinCategory 3 · 46 mi
- MontegutCategory 3 · 52 mi
- LaroseCategory 3 · 60 mi
- LockportCategory 3 · 62 mi
- Saint GabrielCategory 3 · 62 mi
- Cut OffCategory 3 · 65 mi
- HoumaCategory 3 · 50 mi
- White CastleCategory 3 · 54 mi
- RacelandCategory 3 · 60 mi
- PrairievilleCategory 3 · 71 mi
- Des AllemandsCategory 3 · 72 mi
- FranklinCategory 3 · 20 mi
- PattersonCategory 3 · 27 mi
- BerwickCategory 3 · 30 mi
- Morgan CityCategory 3 · 32 mi
- Pierre PartCategory 3 · 42 mi
- SchrieverCategory 3 · 49 mi
- NapoleonvilleCategory 3 · 49 mi
- GrayCategory 3 · 51 mi
- Belle RoseCategory 3 · 52 mi
- ThibodauxCategory 3 · 53 mi
- DonaldsonvilleCategory 3 · 59 mi
- GeismarCategory 3 · 63 mi
- Port AllenCategory 3 · 64 mi
- VacherieCategory 3 · 66 mi
- PaulinaCategory 3 · 68 mi
- GonzalesCategory 3 · 68 mi
- SorrentoCategory 3 · 69 mi
- LutcherCategory 3 · 70 mi
- GramercyCategory 3 · 71 mi
- Saint AmantCategory 3 · 72 mi
- DelcambreCategory 3 · 7 mi
- ErathCategory 3 · 5 mi
- BakerCategory 3 · 74 mi
- Saint MartinvilleCategory 3 · 25 mi
- AbbevilleCategory 2 · overhead
- YoungsvilleCategory 2 · 14 mi
- BroussardCategory 2 · 17 mi
- MaringouinCategory 2 · 53 mi
- Breaux BridgeCategory 2 · 29 mi
- VentressCategory 2 · 67 mi
- MauriceCategory 2 · 8 mi
- LafayetteCategory 2 · 17 mi
- New RoadsCategory 2 · 66 mi
- KaplanCategory 2 · 6 mi
- DusonCategory 2 · 11 mi
- ScottCategory 2 · 16 mi
- ArnaudvilleCategory 2 · 32 mi
- CarencroCategory 2 · 23 mi
- RayneCategory 2 · 9 mi
- SunsetCategory 2 · 25 mi
- Port BarreCategory 2 · 38 mi
and 62 more
Texas (28)
- OrangeTropical storm · 47 mi
- Bridge CityTropical storm · 55 mi
- ColmesneilTropical storm · 45 mi
- WoodvilleTropical storm · 48 mi
- WarrenTropical storm · 50 mi
- ZavallaTropical storm · 51 mi
- KountzeTropical storm · 53 mi
- San AugustineTropical storm · 59 mi
- HuntingtonTropical storm · 62 mi
- Sour LakeTropical storm · 66 mi
- CorriganTropical storm · 72 mi
- DibollTropical storm · 75 mi
- NewtonTropical storm · overhead
- GrovesTropical storm · 61 mi
- Port ArthurTropical storm · 64 mi
- HemphillTropical storm · 35 mi
- Port NechesTropical storm · 59 mi
- VidorTropical storm · 48 mi
- NederlandTropical storm · 60 mi
- KirbyvilleTropical storm · 12 mi
- BunaTropical storm · 28 mi
- JasperTropical storm · 6 mi
- BrookelandTropical storm · 18 mi
- BeaumontTropical storm · 55 mi
- SilsbeeTropical storm · 33 mi
- BronsonTropical storm · 33 mi
- LumbertonTropical storm · 43 mi
- ShelbyvilleTropical storm · 61 mi
Other storms of the 1974 season
- Unnamed (AL181974)Tropical storm · 97 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.