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NHC AL021955 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Connie (1955)

August 3, 1955 – August 15, 1955

Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated

Hurricane Connie peaked at Category 4 with 138 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 1,115 US cities, 122 of them while still at hurricane strength.

Connie in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Connie from August 3, 1955 to August 15, 1955; its peak was 138 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 12 at 98 mph (Category 2), 4 miles from Morehead City, NC. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 1,115 US cities, in 11 states and territories, most in Pennsylvania (398) and Maryland (231). The strongest pass was 98 mph (Category 2) 2 miles from Beaufort, NC; the centre came closest to Linthicum, MD, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Category 4

138 mph

Cities within 75 mi
1,115
At hurricane strength
122

when closest

States
11
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Cities Connie passed near, strongest first

North Carolina (91)

and 31 more

Virginia (134)

and 74 more

Maryland (231)

and 171 more

Delaware (37)

District of Columbia (1)

New Jersey (3)

Pennsylvania (398)

and 338 more

West Virginia (13)

New York (66)

and 6 more

Ohio (24)

Michigan (117)

and 57 more

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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.