NHC AL121979 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Elena (1979)
August 30, 1979 – September 2, 1979
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Elena peaked at Tropical storm with 40 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 28 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Elena in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Elena from August 30, 1979 to September 2, 1979; its peak was 40 mph (tropical storm). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 28 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 40 mph (tropical storm) 30 miles from Palacios, TX.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 28
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
40 mph
when closest
Cities Elena passed near, strongest first
Texas (28)
- PalaciosTropical storm · 30 mi
- Bay CityTropical storm · 32 mi
- Van VleckTropical storm · 37 mi
- BrazoriaTropical storm · 38 mi
- SweenyTropical storm · 39 mi
- FreeportTropical storm · 43 mi
- Lake JacksonTropical storm · 43 mi
- CluteTropical storm · 44 mi
- West ColumbiaTropical storm · 46 mi
- AngletonTropical storm · 51 mi
- BolingTropical storm · 52 mi
- SeadriftTropical storm · 55 mi
- GanadoTropical storm · 56 mi
- El CampoTropical storm · 56 mi
- DanburyTropical storm · 57 mi
- WhartonTropical storm · 58 mi
- EdnaTropical storm · 61 mi
- NeedvilleTropical storm · 62 mi
- RosharonTropical storm · 67 mi
- InezTropical storm · 67 mi
- BeasleyTropical storm · 68 mi
- AlvinTropical storm · 71 mi
- East BernardTropical storm · 72 mi
- RosenbergTropical storm · 72 mi
- ManvelTropical storm · 73 mi
- Santa FeTropical storm · 74 mi
- FresnoTropical storm · 74 mi
- Port LavacaTropical storm · 50 mi
Other storms of the 1979 season
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.