NHC AL042003 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Claudette (2003)
July 7, 2003 – July 17, 2003
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Claudette peaked at Category 1 with 92 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 96 US cities, 30 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Claudette in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Claudette from July 7, 2003 to July 17, 2003; its peak was 92 mph (Category 1). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on July 15 at 92 mph (Category 1), 30 miles from Palacios, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 96 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 90 mph (Category 1) 45 miles from Bay City, TX; the centre came closest to Three Rivers, TX, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 96
- At hurricane strength
- 30
- States
- 1
92 mph
when closest
Cities Claudette passed near, strongest first
Texas (96)
- Bay CityCategory 1 · 45 mi
- Van VleckCategory 1 · 51 mi
- BolingCategory 1 · 66 mi
- PalaciosCategory 1 · 26 mi
- SweenyCategory 1 · 52 mi
- BrazoriaCategory 1 · 49 mi
- West ColumbiaCategory 1 · 59 mi
- FreeportCategory 1 · 48 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 1 · 51 mi
- CluteCategory 1 · 51 mi
- AngletonCategory 1 · 60 mi
- DanburyCategory 1 · 65 mi
- WhartonCategory 1 · 65 mi
- SeadriftCategory 1 · 7 mi
- Port LavacaCategory 1 · 8 mi
- El CampoCategory 1 · 54 mi
- GanadoCategory 1 · 37 mi
- InezCategory 1 · 20 mi
- EdnaCategory 1 · 29 mi
- HallettsvilleCategory 1 · 53 mi
- SchulenburgCategory 1 · 75 mi
- VictoriaCategory 1 · 15 mi
- RockportCategory 1 · 37 mi
- YoakumCategory 1 · 46 mi
- ShinerCategory 1 · 60 mi
- Port AransasCategory 1 · 53 mi
- CueroCategory 1 · 36 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 1 · 46 mi
- RefugioCategory 1 · 17 mi
- InglesideCategory 1 · 49 mi
- GregoryTropical storm · 45 mi
- PortlandTropical storm · 47 mi
- GonzalesTropical storm · 66 mi
- GoliadTropical storm · 9 mi
- TaftTropical storm · 40 mi
- YorktownTropical storm · 30 mi
- Corpus ChristiTropical storm · 58 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 34 mi
- OdemTropical storm · 41 mi
- NixonTropical storm · 52 mi
- BeevilleTropical storm · 8 mi
- SkidmoreTropical storm · 21 mi
- RobstownTropical storm · 52 mi
- KenedyTropical storm · 17 mi
- Karnes CityTropical storm · 26 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 29 mi
- StockdaleTropical storm · 49 mi
- BishopTropical storm · 64 mi
- SeguinTropical storm · 72 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 71 mi
- Mc QueeneyTropical storm · 75 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 31 mi
- Falls CityTropical storm · 32 mi
- La VerniaTropical storm · 58 mi
- MarionTropical storm · 73 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 38 mi
- FloresvilleTropical storm · 45 mi
- AdkinsTropical storm · 57 mi
- Saint HedwigTropical storm · 64 mi
- CiboloTropical storm · 74 mi
and 36 more
Other storms of the 2003 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.