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NHC AL092021 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Ida (2021)

August 26, 2021 – September 4, 2021

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

Hurricane Ida peaked at Category 4 with 150 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 1,649 US cities, 96 of them while still at hurricane strength.

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Ida in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Ida for 9 days, from August 26, 2021 to September 4, 2021. Its first position, at 16.5°N 78.9°W, records it as a tropical depression; its last, at 46.6°N 63.5°W, as an extratropical cyclone. It reached tropical-storm strength on August 26, hurricane strength on August 27 and major-hurricane strength on August 29. Its peak was 150 mph (130 knots), Category 4, on August 29, and its lowest central pressure was 929 millibars on August 29. It spent about 3 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 29 at 150 mph (Category 4), 12 miles from Golden Meadow, LA. It has 2 more landfalls in the record farther from the cities here. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 1,649 US cities, in 10 states, most in New Jersey (454) and Pennsylvania (303), between August 29 and September 2. The strongest pass was 150 mph (Category 4) 39 miles from Port Sulphur, LA; the centre came closest to Norwood, PA, less than a mile away. 96 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 48 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 94% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 2nd of the 10 storms of 2021 here.

Peak strength
Category 4

150 mph

Cities within 75 mi
1,649
At hurricane strength
96

when closest

States
10
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Cities Ida passed near, strongest first

Louisiana (129)

and 69 more

Mississippi (81)

and 21 more

New York (273)

and 213 more

Connecticut (146)

and 86 more

Massachusetts (107)

and 47 more

Rhode Island (49)

New Jersey (454)

and 394 more

Pennsylvania (303)

and 243 more

Maryland (83)

and 23 more

Delaware (24)

Other storms of the 2021 season

  • ClaudetteTropical storm · 485 cities
  • DannyTropical storm · 67 cities
  • ElsaCategory 1 · 2,322 cities
  • LindaCategory 4 · 14 cities
  • FredTropical storm · 212 cities
  • HenriCategory 1 · 507 cities
  • MindyTropical storm · 81 cities
  • NicholasCategory 1 · 127 cities
  • WandaTropical storm · 41 cities

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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.