NHC AL062002 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Fay (2002)
September 5, 2002 – September 11, 2002
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Fay peaked at Tropical storm with 58 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 38 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Fay in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Fay from September 5, 2002 to September 11, 2002; its peak was 58 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 7 at 58 mph (tropical storm), 17 miles from Palacios, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 38 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 58 mph (tropical storm) 52 miles from Sweeny, TX; the centre came closest to Edna, TX, 5 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 38
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
58 mph
when closest
Cities Fay passed near, strongest first
Texas (38)
- SweenyTropical storm · 52 mi
- BrazoriaTropical storm · 53 mi
- FreeportTropical storm · 59 mi
- Lake JacksonTropical storm · 59 mi
- CluteTropical storm · 61 mi
- AngletonTropical storm · 67 mi
- Port AransasTropical storm · 67 mi
- GoliadTropical storm · 68 mi
- HallettsvilleTropical storm · 69 mi
- YoakumTropical storm · 72 mi
- CueroTropical storm · 72 mi
- DanburyTropical storm · 74 mi
- Eagle LakeTropical storm · 74 mi
- InglesideTropical storm · 70 mi
- RockportTropical storm · 55 mi
- Aransas PassTropical storm · 66 mi
- PalaciosTropical storm · 14 mi
- Bay CityTropical storm · 37 mi
- West ColumbiaTropical storm · 59 mi
- PortlandTropical storm · 75 mi
- SeadriftTropical storm · 23 mi
- Van VleckTropical storm · 43 mi
- GregoryTropical storm · 72 mi
- TaftTropical storm · 73 mi
- Port LavacaTropical storm · 10 mi
- BolingTropical storm · 51 mi
- NeedvilleTropical storm · 63 mi
- RefugioTropical storm · 51 mi
- WhartonTropical storm · 46 mi
- GanadoTropical storm · 15 mi
- El CampoTropical storm · 33 mi
- BeasleyTropical storm · 61 mi
- RosenbergTropical storm · 69 mi
- RichmondTropical storm · 73 mi
- EdnaTropical storm · 5 mi
- InezTropical storm · 6 mi
- VictoriaTropical storm · 18 mi
- East BernardTropical storm · 56 mi
Other storms of the 2002 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.