NHC AL262020 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Delta (2020)
October 4, 2020 – October 11, 2020
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Delta peaked at Category 4 with 138 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 169 US cities, 56 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Delta in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Delta from October 4, 2020 to October 11, 2020; its peak was 138 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on October 9 at 98 mph (Category 2), 20 miles from Bell City, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 169 US cities, in 4 states, most in Louisiana (117) and Mississippi (33). The strongest pass was 100 mph (Category 2) 73 miles from Winnie, TX; the centre came closest to Elton, LA, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 169
- At hurricane strength
- 56
- States
- 4
138 mph
when closest
Cities Delta passed near, strongest first
Texas (13)
- WinnieCategory 2 · 73 mi
- Port ArthurCategory 2 · 49 mi
- GrovesCategory 2 · 49 mi
- NederlandCategory 2 · 54 mi
- OrangeCategory 2 · 47 mi
- Bridge CityCategory 2 · 47 mi
- Port NechesCategory 2 · 52 mi
- VidorCategory 2 · 59 mi
- BeaumontCategory 2 · 65 mi
- LumbertonCategory 2 · 72 mi
- BunaCategory 1 · 67 mi
- KirbyvilleCategory 1 · 72 mi
- NewtonCategory 1 · 67 mi
Louisiana (117)
- VintonCategory 1 · 39 mi
- SulphurCategory 1 · 29 mi
- Bell CityCategory 1 · 6 mi
- Lake CharlesCategory 1 · 20 mi
- WestlakeCategory 1 · 24 mi
- Lake ArthurCategory 1 · 10 mi
- GueydanCategory 1 · 22 mi
- IowaCategory 1 · 10 mi
- KaplanCategory 1 · 35 mi
- DequincyCategory 1 · 38 mi
- AbbevilleCategory 1 · 45 mi
- WelshCategory 1 · overhead
- MorseCategory 1 · 20 mi
- ErathCategory 1 · 51 mi
- DelcambreCategory 1 · 54 mi
- JenningsCategory 1 · 9 mi
- RagleyCategory 1 · 24 mi
- CrowleyCategory 1 · 25 mi
- MauriceCategory 1 · 42 mi
- MerryvilleCategory 1 · 52 mi
- New IberiaCategory 1 · 62 mi
- JeaneretteCategory 1 · 72 mi
- KinderCategory 1 · 9 mi
- IotaCategory 1 · 15 mi
- RayneCategory 1 · 30 mi
- LongvilleCategory 1 · 34 mi
- DusonCategory 1 · 37 mi
- YoungsvilleCategory 1 · 49 mi
- EltonCategory 1 · overhead
- ScottCategory 1 · 39 mi
- LafayetteCategory 1 · 44 mi
- BroussardCategory 1 · 50 mi
- BasileCategory 1 · 6 mi
- Saint MartinvilleCategory 1 · 58 mi
- OberlinCategory 1 · 7 mi
- EuniceCategory 1 · 15 mi
- Church PointCategory 1 · 28 mi
- CarencroCategory 1 · 40 mi
- DeridderCategory 1 · 41 mi
- SunsetCategory 1 · 36 mi
- Breaux BridgeCategory 1 · 50 mi
- MamouCategory 1 · 10 mi
- ArnaudvilleCategory 1 · 44 mi
- OpelousasTropical storm · 31 mi
- OakdaleTropical storm · 7 mi
- Ville PlatteTropical storm · 14 mi
- PitkinTropical storm · 27 mi
- Port BarreTropical storm · 39 mi
- Fort PolkTropical storm · 45 mi
- WashingtonTropical storm · 30 mi
- LeesvilleTropical storm · 48 mi
- New LlanoTropical storm · 50 mi
- AnacocoTropical storm · 60 mi
- MaringouinTropical storm · 64 mi
- Saint LandryTropical storm · 9 mi
- GlenmoraTropical storm · 11 mi
- Forest HillTropical storm · 7 mi
- FlorienTropical storm · 67 mi
- BunkieTropical storm · 16 mi
- LecompteTropical storm · 3 mi
and 57 more
Mississippi (33)
- WoodvilleTropical storm · 53 mi
- CentrevilleTropical storm · 68 mi
- GlosterTropical storm · 67 mi
- NatchezTropical storm · 37 mi
- RoxieTropical storm · 53 mi
- MeadvilleTropical storm · 63 mi
- FayetteTropical storm · 46 mi
- LormanTropical storm · 41 mi
- Port GibsonTropical storm · 40 mi
- HazlehurstTropical storm · 72 mi
- Rolling ForkTropical storm · 33 mi
- EdwardsTropical storm · 49 mi
- HollandaleTropical storm · 55 mi
- BoltonTropical storm · 55 mi
- RaymondTropical storm · 58 mi
- BentoniaTropical storm · 58 mi
- FlowoodTropical storm · 60 mi
- ByramTropical storm · 60 mi
- Yazoo CityTropical storm · 60 mi
- ClintonTropical storm · 63 mi
- FloraTropical storm · 63 mi
- GreenvilleTropical storm · 66 mi
- TerryTropical storm · 68 mi
- BelzoniTropical storm · 69 mi
- LelandTropical storm · 69 mi
- Crystal SpringsTropical storm · 70 mi
- JacksonTropical storm · 71 mi
- BentonTropical storm · 72 mi
- RidgelandTropical storm · 74 mi
- RichlandTropical storm · 75 mi
- MadisonTropical storm · 75 mi
- VicksburgTropical storm · 32 mi
- UticaTropical storm · 53 mi
Other storms of the 2020 season
- ArthurTropical storm · 15 cities
- BerthaTropical storm · 64 cities
- CristobalTropical storm · 276 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
- ZetaCategory 3 · 1,509 cities
- EtaCategory 4 · 240 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.