NHC EP071983 · Eastern Pacific basin
Hurricane Gil (1983)
July 23, 1983 – August 5, 1983
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Gil peaked at Category 1 with 92 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 36 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Gil in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Gil from July 23, 1983 to August 5, 1983; its peak was 92 mph (Category 1). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 36 US cities, all in Hawaii. The strongest pass was 46 mph (tropical storm) 19 miles from Kilauea, HI.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 36
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
92 mph
when closest
Cities Gil passed near, strongest first
Hawaii (36)
- KilaueaTropical storm · 19 mi
- PrincevilleTropical storm · 19 mi
- AnaholaTropical storm · 22 mi
- KapaaTropical storm · 27 mi
- KalaheoTropical storm · 34 mi
- LihueTropical storm · 34 mi
- KahukuTropical storm · 35 mi
- WaimeaTropical storm · 37 mi
- LaieTropical storm · 38 mi
- KekahaTropical storm · 39 mi
- KoloaTropical storm · 40 mi
- HauulaTropical storm · 40 mi
- HaleiwaTropical storm · 41 mi
- HanapepeTropical storm · 41 mi
- EleeleTropical storm · 41 mi
- WaialuaTropical storm · 46 mi
- KaneoheTropical storm · 47 mi
- WahiawaTropical storm · 49 mi
- Kaneohe BayTropical storm · 49 mi
- MililaniTropical storm · 51 mi
- KailuaTropical storm · 52 mi
- Pearl CityTropical storm · 54 mi
- AieaTropical storm · 55 mi
- WaipahuTropical storm · 55 mi
- WaimanaloTropical storm · 55 mi
- WaianaeTropical storm · 55 mi
- HonoluluTropical storm · 59 mi
- Ewa BeachTropical storm · 60 mi
- KapoleiTropical storm · 60 mi
- KaunakakaiTropical storm · 60 mi
- HaikuTropical storm · 65 mi
- PaiaTropical storm · 66 mi
- MakawaoTropical storm · 68 mi
- KahuluiTropical storm · 68 mi
- WailukuTropical storm · 69 mi
- LahainaTropical storm · 69 mi
Other storms of the 1983 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.