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NHC AL101964 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Hilda (1964)

September 28, 1964 – October 7, 1964

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

Hurricane Hilda peaked at Category 4 with 138 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 453 US cities, 85 of them while still at hurricane strength.

Hilda in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Hilda from September 28, 1964 to October 7, 1964; its peak was 138 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on October 3 at 104 mph (Category 2), 18 miles from Patterson, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 453 US cities, in 5 states, most in Louisiana (137) and Florida (97). The strongest pass was 104 mph (Category 2) 54 miles from Chauvin, LA; the centre came closest to Loranger, LA, less than a mile away.

Peak strength
Category 4

138 mph

Cities within 75 mi
453
At hurricane strength
85

when closest

States
5
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Cities Hilda passed near, strongest first

Louisiana (137)

and 77 more

Mississippi (63)

and 3 more

Alabama (68)

and 8 more

Florida (97)

and 37 more

Georgia (88)

and 28 more

Other storms of the 1964 season

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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.