NHC AL071958 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Gerda (1958)
September 14, 1958 – September 22, 1958
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Gerda peaked at Tropical storm with 58 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 53 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Gerda in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Gerda from September 14, 1958 to September 22, 1958; its peak was 58 mph (tropical storm). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 53 US cities, in 2 states and territories, most in Texas (30). The strongest pass was 46 mph (tropical storm) 47 miles from Boqueron, PR; the centre came closest to Brownsville, TX, 21 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 53
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 2
58 mph
when closest
Cities Gerda passed near, strongest first
Puerto Rico (23)
- BoqueronTropical storm · 47 mi
- LajasTropical storm · 52 mi
- Cabo RojoTropical storm · 53 mi
- EnsenadaTropical storm · 54 mi
- San GermanTropical storm · 56 mi
- GuanicaTropical storm · 57 mi
- HormiguerosTropical storm · 57 mi
- Sabana GrandeTropical storm · 59 mi
- MayaguezTropical storm · 61 mi
- YaucoTropical storm · 62 mi
- GuayanillaTropical storm · 64 mi
- MaricaoTropical storm · 65 mi
- AnascoTropical storm · 66 mi
- RinconTropical storm · 67 mi
- Las MariasTropical storm · 67 mi
- PenuelasTropical storm · 68 mi
- AguadaTropical storm · 70 mi
- PonceTropical storm · 72 mi
- San SebastianTropical storm · 73 mi
- AdjuntasTropical storm · 73 mi
- MocaTropical storm · 73 mi
- LaresTropical storm · 74 mi
- MerceditaTropical storm · 75 mi
Texas (30)
- OlmitoTropical storm · 40 mi
- ProgresoTropical storm · 42 mi
- San BenitoTropical storm · 43 mi
- La FeriaTropical storm · 45 mi
- MercedesTropical storm · 47 mi
- Los FresnosTropical storm · 47 mi
- DonnaTropical storm · 49 mi
- HarlingenTropical storm · 49 mi
- HidalgoTropical storm · 50 mi
- AlamoTropical storm · 51 mi
- San JuanTropical storm · 52 mi
- Port IsabelTropical storm · 53 mi
- Santa RosaTropical storm · 53 mi
- PharrTropical storm · 54 mi
- Rio HondoTropical storm · 55 mi
- La VillaTropical storm · 56 mi
- ElsaTropical storm · 56 mi
- WeslacoTropical storm · 57 mi
- McallenTropical storm · 57 mi
- South Padre IslandTropical storm · 58 mi
- EdcouchTropical storm · 59 mi
- MissionTropical storm · 61 mi
- EdinburgTropical storm · 62 mi
- LyfordTropical storm · 62 mi
- PenitasTropical storm · 66 mi
- La JoyaTropical storm · 67 mi
- AltonTropical storm · 68 mi
- RaymondvilleTropical storm · 69 mi
- Sullivan CityTropical storm · 71 mi
- BrownsvilleTropical storm · 21 mi
Other storms of the 1958 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.