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NHC AL081999 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Floyd (1999)

September 7, 1999 – September 19, 1999

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

Hurricane Floyd peaked at Category 4 with 155 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 2,009 US cities, 206 of them while still at hurricane strength.

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Floyd in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Floyd from September 7, 1999 to September 19, 1999; its peak was 155 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 16 at 104 mph (Category 2), 11 miles from Oak Island, NC. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 2,009 US cities, in 14 states, most in New Jersey (446) and New York (326). The strongest pass was 104 mph (Category 2) 10 miles from Oak Island, NC; the centre came closest to South Mills, NC, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Category 4

155 mph

Cities within 75 mi
2,009
At hurricane strength
206

when closest

States
14
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Cities Floyd passed near, strongest first

North Carolina (152)

and 92 more

South Carolina (17)

Virginia (57)

Maryland (42)

Delaware (36)

New Jersey (446)

and 386 more

Pennsylvania (95)

and 35 more

New York (326)

and 266 more

Massachusetts (315)

and 255 more

Connecticut (186)

and 126 more

Rhode Island (49)

Vermont (8)

New Hampshire (129)

and 69 more

Maine (151)

and 91 more

Other storms of the 1999 season

  • BretCategory 4 · 59 cities
  • DennisCategory 2 · 155 cities
  • HarveyTropical storm · 92 cities
  • IreneCategory 2 · 168 cities
  • JoseCategory 2 · 27 cities
  • LennyCategory 4 · 1 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.