NHC AL091978 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Debra (1978)
August 26, 1978 – August 29, 1978
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Debra peaked at Tropical storm with 58 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 44 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Debra in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Debra from August 26, 1978 to August 29, 1978; its peak was 58 mph (tropical storm). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 44 US cities, in 2 states, most in Texas (24). The strongest pass was 58 mph (tropical storm) 66 miles from Ragley, LA; the centre came closest to Dequincy, LA, 3 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 44
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 2
58 mph
when closest
Cities Debra passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (20)
- RagleyTropical storm · 66 mi
- LongvilleTropical storm · 72 mi
- MerryvilleTropical storm · 75 mi
- VintonTropical storm · 9 mi
- Bell CityTropical storm · 25 mi
- SulphurTropical storm · 3 mi
- Lake ArthurTropical storm · 43 mi
- GueydanTropical storm · 55 mi
- KaplanTropical storm · 68 mi
- WestlakeTropical storm · 9 mi
- Lake CharlesTropical storm · 13 mi
- IowaTropical storm · 24 mi
- MorseTropical storm · 55 mi
- WelshTropical storm · 34 mi
- JenningsTropical storm · 44 mi
- DequincyTropical storm · 3 mi
- CrowleyTropical storm · 61 mi
- DusonTropical storm · 74 mi
- IotaTropical storm · 53 mi
- RayneTropical storm · 68 mi
Texas (24)
- WinnieTropical storm · 50 mi
- AnahuacTropical storm · 60 mi
- Port ArthurTropical storm · 25 mi
- GrovesTropical storm · 24 mi
- Port NechesTropical storm · 27 mi
- NederlandTropical storm · 29 mi
- Bridge CityTropical storm · 21 mi
- BeaumontTropical storm · 40 mi
- Crystal BeachTropical storm · 54 mi
- BacliffTropical storm · 72 mi
- Sour LakeTropical storm · 56 mi
- Texas CityTropical storm · 66 mi
- La MarqueTropical storm · 67 mi
- DickinsonTropical storm · 73 mi
- OrangeTropical storm · 19 mi
- VidorTropical storm · 32 mi
- GalvestonTropical storm · 57 mi
- HitchcockTropical storm · 68 mi
- Santa FeTropical storm · 74 mi
- LumbertonTropical storm · 45 mi
- KountzeTropical storm · 55 mi
- SilsbeeTropical storm · 46 mi
- BunaTropical storm · 35 mi
- WarrenTropical storm · 62 mi
Other storms of the 1978 season
- AmeliaTropical storm · 65 cities
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.