NHC AL081996 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Hortense (1996)
September 3, 1996 – September 16, 1996
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Hortense peaked at Category 4 with 138 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 83 US cities, 83 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Hortense in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Hortense from September 3, 1996 to September 16, 1996; its peak was 138 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 10 at 81 mph (Category 1), 1 mile from Guanica, PR. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 83 US cities, all in Puerto Rico. The strongest pass was 81 mph (Category 1) less than a mile from Guanica, PR; the centre came closest to Cabo Rojo, PR, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 83
- At hurricane strength
- 83
- States
- 1
138 mph
when closest
Cities Hortense passed near, strongest first
Puerto Rico (83)
- GuanicaCategory 1 · overhead
- EnsenadaCategory 1 · 3 mi
- Sabana GrandeCategory 1 · 4 mi
- YaucoCategory 1 · 5 mi
- GuayanillaCategory 1 · 7 mi
- PenuelasCategory 1 · 11 mi
- PonceCategory 1 · 15 mi
- AdjuntasCategory 1 · 16 mi
- MerceditaCategory 1 · 17 mi
- LaresCategory 1 · 19 mi
- Coto LaurelCategory 1 · 20 mi
- Juana DiazCategory 1 · 22 mi
- UtuadoCategory 1 · 23 mi
- Santa IsabelCategory 1 · 25 mi
- JayuyaCategory 1 · 25 mi
- VillalbaCategory 1 · 27 mi
- HatilloCategory 1 · 30 mi
- CoamoCategory 1 · 31 mi
- SalinasCategory 1 · 32 mi
- AguirreCategory 1 · 33 mi
- FloridaCategory 1 · 33 mi
- OrocovisCategory 1 · 34 mi
- Sabana HoyosCategory 1 · 34 mi
- AreciboCategory 1 · 34 mi
- CialesCategory 1 · 34 mi
- GarrochalesCategory 1 · 37 mi
- AibonitoCategory 1 · 38 mi
- GuayamaCategory 1 · 38 mi
- MorovisCategory 1 · 38 mi
- BarranquitasCategory 1 · 39 mi
- BarcelonetaCategory 1 · 39 mi
- ManatiCategory 1 · 40 mi
- ArroyoCategory 1 · 42 mi
- CayeyCategory 1 · 42 mi
- CorozalCategory 1 · 43 mi
- ComerioCategory 1 · 44 mi
- CidraCategory 1 · 45 mi
- Vega BajaCategory 1 · 45 mi
- PatillasCategory 1 · 46 mi
- NaranjitoCategory 1 · 46 mi
- Vega AltaCategory 1 · 47 mi
- Aguas BuenasCategory 1 · 50 mi
- Toa AltaCategory 1 · 50 mi
- MaunaboCategory 1 · 50 mi
- DoradoCategory 1 · 51 mi
- BayamonCategory 1 · 53 mi
- CaguasCategory 1 · 54 mi
- YabucoaCategory 1 · 54 mi
- San LorenzoCategory 1 · 54 mi
- Toa BajaCategory 1 · 54 mi
- GuaynaboCategory 1 · 56 mi
- CatanoCategory 1 · 58 mi
- GuraboCategory 1 · 58 mi
- JuncosCategory 1 · 59 mi
- Las PiedrasCategory 1 · 60 mi
- Trujillo AltoCategory 1 · 60 mi
- San JuanCategory 1 · 60 mi
- HumacaoCategory 1 · 61 mi
- CarolinaCategory 1 · 64 mi
- Punta SantiagoCategory 1 · 64 mi
and 23 more
Other storms of the 1996 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.