NHC AL051958 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Ella (1958)
August 30, 1958 – September 7, 1958
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Ella peaked at Category 2 with 109 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 25 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Ella in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Ella from August 30, 1958 to September 7, 1958; its peak was 109 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 6 at 58 mph (tropical storm), 20 miles from Corpus Christi, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 25 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 58 mph (tropical storm) 23 miles from Port Aransas, TX; the centre came closest to Bishop, TX, 7 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 25
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
109 mph
when closest
Cities Ella passed near, strongest first
Texas (25)
- Port AransasTropical storm · 23 mi
- InglesideTropical storm · 25 mi
- Aransas PassTropical storm · 29 mi
- RockportTropical storm · 39 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 41 mi
- AliceTropical storm · 57 mi
- PremontTropical storm · 57 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 59 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 62 mi
- FalfurriasTropical storm · 62 mi
- SeadriftTropical storm · 68 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 73 mi
- RefugioTropical storm · 57 mi
- GregoryTropical storm · 29 mi
- PortlandTropical storm · 27 mi
- TaftTropical storm · 33 mi
- Corpus ChristiTropical storm · 15 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 38 mi
- OdemTropical storm · 31 mi
- RobstownTropical storm · 20 mi
- SkidmoreTropical storm · 51 mi
- BeevilleTropical storm · 64 mi
- BishopTropical storm · 7 mi
- RaymondvilleTropical storm · 69 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 42 mi
Other storms of the 1958 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.