NHC AL061963 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Edith (1963)
September 23, 1963 – September 29, 1963
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Edith peaked at Category 2 with 98 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 19 US cities, 13 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Edith in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Edith from September 23, 1963 to September 29, 1963; its peak was 98 mph (Category 2). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 19 US cities, all in Puerto Rico. The strongest pass was 75 mph (Category 1) 59 miles from Hormigueros, PR; the centre came closest to Boqueron, PR, 52 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 19
- At hurricane strength
- 13
- States
- 1
98 mph
when closest
Cities Edith passed near, strongest first
Puerto Rico (19)
- HormiguerosCategory 1 · 59 mi
- MayaguezCategory 1 · 61 mi
- RinconCategory 1 · 62 mi
- AnascoCategory 1 · 64 mi
- AguadaCategory 1 · 66 mi
- Las MariasCategory 1 · 71 mi
- MocaCategory 1 · 71 mi
- AguadillaCategory 1 · 72 mi
- San SebastianCategory 1 · 74 mi
- BoqueronCategory 1 · 52 mi
- Cabo RojoCategory 1 · 56 mi
- San GermanCategory 1 · 62 mi
- MaricaoCategory 1 · 70 mi
- LajasTropical storm · 59 mi
- EnsenadaTropical storm · 63 mi
- GuanicaTropical storm · 66 mi
- Sabana GrandeTropical storm · 67 mi
- YaucoTropical storm · 71 mi
- GuayanillaTropical storm · 74 mi
Other storms of the 1963 season
- Unnamed (AL101963)Tropical storm · 274 cities
- CindyTropical storm · 100 cities
- GinnyCategory 2 · 19 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.