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NHC AL052021 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Elsa (2021)

June 30, 2021 – July 10, 2021

Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated

Hurricane Elsa peaked at Category 1 with 86 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 2,322 US cities, 7 of them while still at hurricane strength.

Elsa in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Elsa from June 30, 2021 to July 10, 2021; its peak was 86 mph (Category 1). HURDAT2 marks 3 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site, the first on July 7 at 63 mph (tropical storm), 16 miles from Perry, FL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 2,322 US cities, in 15 states, most in New Jersey (368) and Massachusetts (313). The strongest pass was 74 mph (Category 1) 57 miles from Englewood, FL; the centre came closest to East Hampton, NY, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Category 1

86 mph

Cities within 75 mi
2,322
At hurricane strength
7

when closest

States
15
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Cities Elsa passed near, strongest first

Florida (111)

and 51 more

New Jersey (368)

and 308 more

Massachusetts (313)

and 253 more

New York (244)

and 184 more

Connecticut (180)

and 120 more

Maryland (87)

and 27 more

Pennsylvania (77)

and 17 more

Rhode Island (49)

Delaware (37)

Virginia (125)

and 65 more

North Carolina (252)

and 192 more

Georgia (134)

and 74 more

New Hampshire (71)

and 11 more

Maine (110)

and 50 more

South Carolina (164)

and 104 more

Other storms of the 2021 season

  • ClaudetteTropical storm · 485 cities
  • DannyTropical storm · 67 cities
  • LindaCategory 4 · 14 cities
  • FredTropical storm · 212 cities
  • HenriCategory 1 · 507 cities
  • IdaCategory 4 · 1,649 cities
  • MindyTropical storm · 81 cities
  • NicholasCategory 1 · 127 cities
  • WandaTropical storm · 41 cities

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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.