NHC AL061998 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Frances (1998)
September 8, 1998 – September 13, 1998
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Frances peaked at Tropical storm with 63 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 52 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Frances in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Frances from September 8, 1998 to September 13, 1998; its peak was 63 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 11 at 52 mph (tropical storm), 14 miles from Rockport, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 52 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 53 mph (tropical storm) 26 miles from Port Aransas, TX; the centre came closest to Refugio, TX, 2 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 52
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
63 mph
when closest
Cities Frances passed near, strongest first
Texas (52)
- Port AransasTropical storm · 26 mi
- SeadriftTropical storm · 19 mi
- RockportTropical storm · 13 mi
- Aransas PassTropical storm · 23 mi
- InglesideTropical storm · 28 mi
- GregoryTropical storm · 26 mi
- PortlandTropical storm · 29 mi
- Corpus ChristiTropical storm · 41 mi
- RefugioTropical storm · 2 mi
- TaftTropical storm · 23 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 21 mi
- OdemTropical storm · 29 mi
- RobstownTropical storm · 42 mi
- BishopTropical storm · 56 mi
- BeevilleTropical storm · 9 mi
- SkidmoreTropical storm · 13 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 25 mi
- KenedyTropical storm · 30 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 31 mi
- George WestTropical storm · 35 mi
- Three RiversTropical storm · 36 mi
- Karnes CityTropical storm · 39 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 42 mi
- Falls CityTropical storm · 49 mi
- AliceTropical storm · 55 mi
- StockdaleTropical storm · 62 mi
- NixonTropical storm · 62 mi
- FloresvilleTropical storm · 63 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 64 mi
- PleasantonTropical storm · 65 mi
- JourdantonTropical storm · 66 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 68 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 69 mi
- La VerniaTropical storm · 73 mi
- ElmendorfTropical storm · 73 mi
- AdkinsTropical storm · 74 mi
- PoteetTropical storm · 75 mi
- GoliadTropical storm · 17 mi
- YorktownTropical storm · 39 mi
- GonzalesTropical storm · 74 mi
- CueroTropical storm · 44 mi
- VictoriaTropical storm · 22 mi
- InezTropical storm · 29 mi
- EdnaTropical storm · 38 mi
- GanadoTropical storm · 47 mi
- PalaciosTropical storm · 50 mi
- YoakumTropical storm · 53 mi
- HallettsvilleTropical storm · 61 mi
- El CampoTropical storm · 65 mi
- ShinerTropical storm · 66 mi
- Bay CityTropical storm · 71 mi
- Port LavacaTropical storm · 22 mi
Other storms of the 1998 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.