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NHC AL032020 · Atlantic basin

Tropical Storm Cristobal (2020)

June 1, 2020 – June 12, 2020

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

Tropical Storm Cristobal peaked at Tropical storm with 58 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 276 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.

Cristobal in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Cristobal from June 1, 2020 to June 12, 2020; its peak was 58 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on June 7 at 52 mph (tropical storm), 16 miles from Port Sulphur, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 276 US cities, in 4 states, most in Wisconsin (111) and Louisiana (105). The strongest pass was 52 mph (tropical storm) 3 miles from Port Sulphur, LA; the centre came closest to New Orleans, LA, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Tropical storm

58 mph

Cities within 75 mi
276
At hurricane strength
0

when closest

States
4

Cities Cristobal passed near, strongest first

Louisiana (105)

and 45 more

Mississippi (33)

Wisconsin (111)

and 51 more

Michigan (27)

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  • BerthaTropical storm · 64 cities
  • FayTropical storm · 885 cities
  • DouglasCategory 4 · 43 cities
  • HannaCategory 1 · 44 cities
  • IsaiasCategory 1 · 2,213 cities
  • LauraCategory 4 · 327 cities
  • MarcoCategory 1 · 6 cities
  • SallyCategory 2 · 191 cities
  • BetaTropical storm · 49 cities
  • DeltaCategory 4 · 169 cities
  • ZetaCategory 3 · 1,509 cities
  • EtaCategory 4 · 240 cities

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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.