NHC AL081998 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Hermine (1998)
September 17, 1998 – September 20, 1998
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Hermine peaked at Tropical storm with 46 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 52 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Hermine in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Hermine from September 17, 1998 to September 20, 1998; its peak was 46 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 20 at 40 mph (tropical storm), 26 miles from Chauvin, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 52 US cities, all in Louisiana. The strongest pass was 40 mph (tropical storm) 29 miles from Houma, LA; the centre came closest to Chauvin, LA, 13 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 52
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
46 mph
when closest
Cities Hermine passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (52)
- HoumaTropical storm · 29 mi
- GrayTropical storm · 35 mi
- LaroseTropical storm · 36 mi
- SchrieverTropical storm · 36 mi
- LockportTropical storm · 38 mi
- Morgan CityTropical storm · 38 mi
- RacelandTropical storm · 40 mi
- Cut OffTropical storm · 40 mi
- ThibodauxTropical storm · 42 mi
- NapoleonvilleTropical storm · 50 mi
- Des AllemandsTropical storm · 50 mi
- Pierre PartTropical storm · 54 mi
- VacherieTropical storm · 55 mi
- BoutteTropical storm · 57 mi
- LafitteTropical storm · 57 mi
- Belle RoseTropical storm · 58 mi
- PaulinaTropical storm · 58 mi
- LulingTropical storm · 59 mi
- LutcherTropical storm · 60 mi
- GramercyTropical storm · 60 mi
- HahnvilleTropical storm · 61 mi
- DestrehanTropical storm · 62 mi
- ReserveTropical storm · 63 mi
- DonaldsonvilleTropical storm · 63 mi
- NorcoTropical storm · 63 mi
- Saint RoseTropical storm · 63 mi
- La PlaceTropical storm · 65 mi
- WestwegoTropical storm · 66 mi
- MarreroTropical storm · 66 mi
- HarahanTropical storm · 67 mi
- JeaneretteTropical storm · 67 mi
- White CastleTropical storm · 68 mi
- SorrentoTropical storm · 68 mi
- HarveyTropical storm · 68 mi
- KennerTropical storm · 68 mi
- Belle ChasseTropical storm · 69 mi
- Saint AmantTropical storm · 70 mi
- MetairieTropical storm · 70 mi
- GeismarTropical storm · 70 mi
- Port SulphurTropical storm · 71 mi
- GretnaTropical storm · 71 mi
- GonzalesTropical storm · 71 mi
- New OrleansTropical storm · 74 mi
- Saint GabrielTropical storm · 74 mi
- MaurepasTropical storm · 75 mi
- ChauvinTropical storm · 13 mi
- MontegutTropical storm · 18 mi
- BerwickTropical storm · 28 mi
- GallianoTropical storm · 30 mi
- PattersonTropical storm · 33 mi
- Golden MeadowTropical storm · 37 mi
- FranklinTropical storm · 46 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.