NHC AL031998 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Charley (1998)
August 21, 1998 – August 24, 1998
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Charley peaked at Tropical storm with 69 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 32 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Charley in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Charley from August 21, 1998 to August 24, 1998; its peak was 69 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 22 at 46 mph (tropical storm), 2 miles from Port Aransas, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 32 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 46 mph (tropical storm) 2 miles from Port Aransas, TX; the centre came closest to Portland, TX, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 32
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
69 mph
when closest
Cities Charley passed near, strongest first
Texas (32)
- Port AransasTropical storm · 2 mi
- SeadriftTropical storm · 48 mi
- Port LavacaTropical storm · 62 mi
- RockportTropical storm · 17 mi
- InglesideTropical storm · 2 mi
- Aransas PassTropical storm · 6 mi
- PortlandTropical storm · overhead
- GregoryTropical storm · 4 mi
- Corpus ChristiTropical storm · 12 mi
- TaftTropical storm · 6 mi
- SkidmoreTropical storm · 29 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 30 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 34 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 41 mi
- BeevilleTropical storm · 42 mi
- AliceTropical storm · 44 mi
- George WestTropical storm · 52 mi
- GoliadTropical storm · 54 mi
- PremontTropical storm · 58 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 62 mi
- Three RiversTropical storm · 62 mi
- KenedyTropical storm · 67 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 72 mi
- Karnes CityTropical storm · 75 mi
- OdemTropical storm · 3 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 5 mi
- RobstownTropical storm · 16 mi
- RefugioTropical storm · 30 mi
- BishopTropical storm · 30 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 39 mi
- FalfurriasTropical storm · 65 mi
- VictoriaTropical storm · 66 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.