NHC AL061979 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Claudette (1979)
July 15, 1979 – July 29, 1979
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Claudette peaked at Tropical storm with 52 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 92 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Claudette in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Claudette from July 15, 1979 to July 29, 1979; its peak was 52 mph (tropical storm). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 92 US cities, in 2 states, most in Texas (70). The strongest pass was 52 mph (tropical storm) 48 miles from Crystal Beach, TX; the centre came closest to Groves, TX, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 92
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 2
52 mph
when closest
Cities Claudette passed near, strongest first
Texas (70)
- Crystal BeachTropical storm · 48 mi
- GalvestonTropical storm · 60 mi
- Texas CityTropical storm · 64 mi
- BacliffTropical storm · 66 mi
- La MarqueTropical storm · 67 mi
- KemahTropical storm · 68 mi
- DickinsonTropical storm · 68 mi
- HitchcockTropical storm · 69 mi
- League CityTropical storm · 72 mi
- Santa FeTropical storm · 74 mi
- AnahuacTropical storm · 46 mi
- GrovesTropical storm · 1 mi
- Port ArthurTropical storm · 2 mi
- WinnieTropical storm · 30 mi
- Bridge CityTropical storm · 4 mi
- Port NechesTropical storm · 4 mi
- NederlandTropical storm · 6 mi
- BeaumontTropical storm · 15 mi
- VidorTropical storm · 6 mi
- OrangeTropical storm · 7 mi
- KirbyvilleTropical storm · 26 mi
- NewtonTropical storm · 38 mi
- HemphillTropical storm · 72 mi
- BunaTropical storm · 9 mi
- BrookelandTropical storm · 56 mi
- JasperTropical storm · 44 mi
- BronsonTropical storm · 72 mi
- LumbertonTropical storm · 4 mi
- SilsbeeTropical storm · 6 mi
- Sour LakeTropical storm · 12 mi
- WarrenTropical storm · 22 mi
- LibertyTropical storm · 32 mi
- WoodvilleTropical storm · 33 mi
- DaytonTropical storm · 39 mi
- ClevelandTropical storm · 40 mi
- ColmesneilTropical storm · 43 mi
- GoodrichTropical storm · 44 mi
- ShepherdTropical storm · 44 mi
- LivingstonTropical storm · 46 mi
- HuffmanTropical storm · 51 mi
- SplendoraTropical storm · 52 mi
- New CaneyTropical storm · 53 mi
- BaytownTropical storm · 53 mi
- CrosbyTropical storm · 53 mi
- ColdspringTropical storm · 54 mi
- HighlandsTropical storm · 56 mi
- KingwoodTropical storm · 56 mi
- CorriganTropical storm · 57 mi
- PorterTropical storm · 59 mi
- ZavallaTropical storm · 59 mi
- HumbleTropical storm · 60 mi
- OnalaskaTropical storm · 60 mi
- ChannelviewTropical storm · 61 mi
- La PorteTropical storm · 63 mi
- Deer ParkTropical storm · 65 mi
- HuntingtonTropical storm · 65 mi
- SeabrookTropical storm · 67 mi
- ConroeTropical storm · 68 mi
- DibollTropical storm · 68 mi
- PasadenaTropical storm · 68 mi
and 10 more
Louisiana (22)
- Bell CityTropical storm · 52 mi
- Lake ArthurTropical storm · 70 mi
- VintonTropical storm · 18 mi
- SulphurTropical storm · 31 mi
- Lake CharlesTropical storm · 41 mi
- DequincyTropical storm · 31 mi
- MerryvilleTropical storm · 33 mi
- WestlakeTropical storm · 38 mi
- LongvilleTropical storm · 44 mi
- RagleyTropical storm · 47 mi
- DeridderTropical storm · 53 mi
- IowaTropical storm · 53 mi
- KinderTropical storm · 63 mi
- WelshTropical storm · 64 mi
- Fort PolkTropical storm · 67 mi
- New LlanoTropical storm · 67 mi
- AnacocoTropical storm · 69 mi
- LeesvilleTropical storm · 70 mi
- PitkinTropical storm · 72 mi
- OberlinTropical storm · 72 mi
- EltonTropical storm · 73 mi
- JenningsTropical storm · 74 mi
Other storms of the 1979 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.