NHC AL131971 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Edith (1971)
September 5, 1971 – September 18, 1971
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Edith peaked at Category 4 with 150 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 280 US cities, 98 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Edith in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Edith from September 5, 1971 to September 18, 1971; its peak was 150 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 16 at 92 mph (Category 1), 32 miles from Gueydan, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 280 US cities, in 4 states, most in Louisiana (136) and Mississippi (109). The strongest pass was 92 mph (Category 1) 54 miles from Sulphur, LA; the centre came closest to Maurice, LA, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 280
- At hurricane strength
- 98
- States
- 4
150 mph
when closest
Cities Edith passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (136)
- SulphurCategory 1 · 54 mi
- VintonCategory 1 · 59 mi
- Lake CharlesCategory 1 · 48 mi
- WestlakeCategory 1 · 52 mi
- Bell CityCategory 1 · 34 mi
- DequincyCategory 1 · 68 mi
- IowaCategory 1 · 42 mi
- Lake ArthurCategory 1 · 22 mi
- WelshCategory 1 · 35 mi
- RagleyCategory 1 · 59 mi
- LongvilleCategory 1 · 70 mi
- GueydanCategory 1 · 11 mi
- KaplanCategory 1 · 1 mi
- MorseCategory 1 · 17 mi
- JenningsCategory 1 · 28 mi
- KinderCategory 1 · 49 mi
- AbbevilleCategory 1 · 8 mi
- CrowleyCategory 1 · 16 mi
- IotaCategory 1 · 26 mi
- EltonCategory 1 · 42 mi
- MauriceCategory 1 · overhead
- ErathCategory 1 · 12 mi
- RayneCategory 1 · 12 mi
- DelcambreCategory 1 · 14 mi
- BasileCategory 1 · 37 mi
- OberlinCategory 1 · 51 mi
- YoungsvilleCategory 1 · 5 mi
- DusonCategory 1 · 6 mi
- EuniceCategory 1 · 32 mi
- LafayetteCategory 1 · 2 mi
- BroussardCategory 1 · 5 mi
- ScottCategory 1 · 6 mi
- New IberiaCategory 1 · 18 mi
- Church PointCategory 1 · 20 mi
- JeaneretteCategory 1 · 28 mi
- MamouCategory 1 · 39 mi
- FranklinCategory 1 · 42 mi
- OakdaleCategory 1 · 57 mi
- CarencroCategory 1 · 8 mi
- Saint MartinvilleCategory 1 · 11 mi
- SunsetCategory 1 · 13 mi
- PattersonCategory 1 · 53 mi
- GlenmoraCategory 1 · 66 mi
- Breaux BridgeCategory 1 · overhead
- ArnaudvilleCategory 1 · 8 mi
- OpelousasCategory 1 · 21 mi
- Ville PlatteCategory 1 · 39 mi
- BerwickCategory 1 · 57 mi
- Morgan CityCategory 1 · 58 mi
- Forest HillCategory 1 · 65 mi
- Port BarreCategory 1 · 15 mi
- WashingtonCategory 1 · 26 mi
- Saint LandryCategory 1 · 48 mi
- WoodworthCategory 1 · 70 mi
- BunkieCategory 1 · 44 mi
- Pierre PartCategory 1 · 45 mi
- LecompteCategory 1 · 63 mi
- White CastleCategory 1 · 36 mi
- Belle RoseCategory 1 · 45 mi
- NapoleonvilleCategory 1 · 53 mi
and 76 more
Texas (26)
- Port ArthurCategory 1 · 56 mi
- GrovesCategory 1 · 57 mi
- Bridge CityCategory 1 · 58 mi
- GalvestonCategory 1 · 59 mi
- Port NechesCategory 1 · 60 mi
- Crystal BeachCategory 1 · 61 mi
- OrangeCategory 1 · 61 mi
- NederlandCategory 1 · 61 mi
- FreeportCategory 1 · 65 mi
- HitchcockCategory 1 · 69 mi
- La MarqueCategory 1 · 69 mi
- Texas CityCategory 1 · 69 mi
- WinnieCategory 1 · 69 mi
- CluteCategory 1 · 70 mi
- VidorCategory 1 · 70 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 1 · 72 mi
- BeaumontCategory 1 · 72 mi
- AnahuacCategory 1 · 73 mi
- Santa FeCategory 1 · 74 mi
- South Padre IslandCategory 1 · 49 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 1 · 52 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 1 · 58 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 1 · 62 mi
- OlmitoCategory 1 · 65 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 1 · 73 mi
- San BenitoCategory 1 · 73 mi
Mississippi (109)
- WoodvilleTropical storm · 20 mi
- CentrevilleTropical storm · 7 mi
- GlosterTropical storm · 10 mi
- NatchezTropical storm · 41 mi
- LibertyTropical storm · 2 mi
- RoxieTropical storm · 27 mi
- MagnoliaTropical storm · 17 mi
- MeadvilleTropical storm · 18 mi
- SmithdaleTropical storm · 2 mi
- FayetteTropical storm · 36 mi
- SummitTropical storm · 9 mi
- MccombTropical storm · 13 mi
- LormanTropical storm · 43 mi
- CarriereTropical storm · 74 mi
- Bogue ChittoTropical storm · 1 mi
- TylertownTropical storm · 30 mi
- Port GibsonTropical storm · 46 mi
- BrookhavenTropical storm · 5 mi
- JayessTropical storm · 17 mi
- Sandy HookTropical storm · 45 mi
- WessonTropical storm · 10 mi
- HazlehurstTropical storm · 18 mi
- UticaTropical storm · 39 mi
- VicksburgTropical storm · 60 mi
- MonticelloTropical storm · 9 mi
- Crystal SpringsTropical storm · 24 mi
- FoxworthTropical storm · 35 mi
- ColumbiaTropical storm · 36 mi
- EdwardsTropical storm · 50 mi
- PoplarvilleTropical storm · 69 mi
- NewhebronTropical storm · 2 mi
- Silver CreekTropical storm · 10 mi
- PrentissTropical storm · 13 mi
- TerryTropical storm · 31 mi
- RaymondTropical storm · 42 mi
- FlowoodTropical storm · 44 mi
- ByramTropical storm · 44 mi
- BoltonTropical storm · 52 mi
- LumbertonTropical storm · 58 mi
- BassfieldTropical storm · 24 mi
- FlorenceTropical storm · 25 mi
- RichlandTropical storm · 32 mi
- SumrallTropical storm · 36 mi
- JacksonTropical storm · 39 mi
- ClintonTropical storm · 45 mi
- PurvisTropical storm · 53 mi
- MageeTropical storm · 2 mi
- MendenhallTropical storm · 6 mi
- Mount OliveTropical storm · 11 mi
- BraxtonTropical storm · 14 mi
- CollinsTropical storm · 20 mi
- SeminaryTropical storm · 30 mi
- PearlTropical storm · 34 mi
- RidgelandTropical storm · 43 mi
- HattiesburgTropical storm · 48 mi
- FloraTropical storm · 56 mi
- BentoniaTropical storm · 64 mi
- BrooklynTropical storm · 70 mi
- WigginsTropical storm · 74 mi
- MizeTropical storm · 7 mi
and 49 more
Alabama (9)
- YorkTropical storm · 45 mi
- ButlerTropical storm · 47 mi
- LivingstonTropical storm · 54 mi
- MillryTropical storm · 60 mi
- DemopolisTropical storm · 69 mi
- LindenTropical storm · 71 mi
- ChatomTropical storm · 72 mi
- AlicevilleTropical storm · 72 mi
- GallionTropical storm · 74 mi
Other storms of the 1971 season
- Unnamed (AL071971)Tropical storm · 66 cities
- DoriaTropical storm · 2,064 cities
- FernCategory 1 · 80 cities
- GingerCategory 3 · 145 cities
- HeidiTropical storm · 103 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.