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NHC AL062024 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Francine (2024)

September 8, 2024 – September 14, 2024

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

Hurricane Francine peaked at Category 2 with 104 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 152 US cities, 28 of them while still at hurricane strength.

Francine in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Francine from September 8, 2024 to September 14, 2024; its peak was 104 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 11 at 104 mph (Category 2), 27 miles from Berwick, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 152 US cities, in 2 states, most in Louisiana (113). The strongest pass was 104 mph (Category 2) 61 miles from Delcambre, LA; the centre came closest to Jayess, MS, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Category 2

104 mph

Cities within 75 mi
152
At hurricane strength
28

when closest

States
2

Cities Francine passed near, strongest first

Louisiana (113)

and 53 more

Mississippi (39)

Other storms of the 2024 season

  • BerylCategory 5 · 159 cities
  • DebbyCategory 1 · 382 cities
  • ErnestoCategory 2 · 64 cities
  • HoneCategory 1 · 3 cities
  • HeleneCategory 4 · 748 cities
  • MiltonCategory 5 · 177 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.