NHC AL081955 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Ione (1955)
September 10, 1955 – September 27, 1955
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Ione peaked at Category 4 with 138 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 128 US cities, 128 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Ione in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Ione from September 10, 1955 to September 27, 1955; its peak was 138 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 19 at 104 mph (Category 2), 4 miles from Morehead City, NC. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 128 US cities, in 2 states, most in North Carolina (98). The strongest pass was 106 mph (Category 2) 68 miles from Wrightsville Beach, NC; the centre came closest to Belhaven, NC, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 128
- At hurricane strength
- 128
- States
- 2
138 mph
when closest
Cities Ione passed near, strongest first
North Carolina (98)
- Wrightsville BeachCategory 2 · 68 mi
- WilmingtonCategory 2 · 72 mi
- HampsteadCategory 2 · 57 mi
- Castle HayneCategory 2 · 72 mi
- BeaufortCategory 2 · 3 mi
- Morehead CityCategory 2 · 3 mi
- Atlantic BeachCategory 2 · 5 mi
- NewportCategory 2 · 10 mi
- Emerald IsleCategory 2 · 18 mi
- SwansboroCategory 2 · 23 mi
- HubertCategory 2 · 29 mi
- Midway ParkCategory 2 · 35 mi
- Camp LejeuneCategory 2 · 36 mi
- Tarawa TerraceCategory 2 · 38 mi
- JacksonvilleCategory 2 · 41 mi
- Sneads FerryCategory 2 · 43 mi
- Holly RidgeCategory 2 · 51 mi
- Maple HillCategory 2 · 54 mi
- Rocky PointCategory 2 · 70 mi
- BurgawCategory 2 · 71 mi
- WallaceCategory 2 · 73 mi
- TeacheyCategory 2 · 75 mi
- MaysvilleCategory 2 · 30 mi
- HavelockCategory 2 · 11 mi
- Cherry PointCategory 2 · 11 mi
- RichlandsCategory 2 · 49 mi
- BeulavilleCategory 2 · 61 mi
- KenansvilleCategory 2 · 71 mi
- OrientalCategory 2 · overhead
- Pink HillCategory 2 · 58 mi
- TrentonCategory 1 · 42 mi
- GrantsboroCategory 1 · 9 mi
- New BernCategory 1 · 21 mi
- Deep RunCategory 1 · 56 mi
- BayboroCategory 1 · 1 mi
- Cove CityCategory 1 · 35 mi
- Seven SpringsCategory 1 · 66 mi
- KinstonCategory 1 · 51 mi
- AuroraCategory 1 · 5 mi
- VanceboroCategory 1 · 26 mi
- GriftonCategory 1 · 41 mi
- AydenCategory 1 · 42 mi
- WintervilleCategory 1 · 42 mi
- HookertonCategory 1 · 51 mi
- Snow HillCategory 1 · 57 mi
- La GrangeCategory 1 · 61 mi
- StantonsburgCategory 1 · 66 mi
- GoldsboroCategory 1 · 72 mi
- PikevilleCategory 1 · 73 mi
- FremontCategory 1 · 74 mi
- DudleyCategory 1 · 74 mi
- ChocowinityCategory 1 · 24 mi
- GrimeslandCategory 1 · 32 mi
- GreenvilleCategory 1 · 42 mi
- FarmvilleCategory 1 · 54 mi
- WilsonCategory 1 · 75 mi
- WashingtonCategory 1 · 24 mi
- MacclesfieldCategory 1 · 60 mi
- Elm CityCategory 1 · 73 mi
- BelhavenCategory 1 · overhead
and 38 more
Virginia (30)
- AccomacCategory 1 · 70 mi
- ParksleyCategory 1 · 74 mi
- ExmoreCategory 1 · 62 mi
- PainterCategory 1 · 65 mi
- MelfaCategory 1 · 67 mi
- OnancockCategory 1 · 72 mi
- Virginia BeachCategory 1 · 27 mi
- ChesapeakeCategory 1 · 31 mi
- NorfolkCategory 1 · 36 mi
- PortsmouthCategory 1 · 37 mi
- SuffolkCategory 1 · 43 mi
- HamptonCategory 1 · 48 mi
- Cape CharlesCategory 1 · 48 mi
- CarrolltonCategory 1 · 50 mi
- PoquosonCategory 1 · 52 mi
- WindsorCategory 1 · 53 mi
- FranklinCategory 1 · 53 mi
- Newport NewsCategory 1 · 55 mi
- SmithfieldCategory 1 · 56 mi
- YorktownCategory 1 · 56 mi
- SeafordCategory 1 · 57 mi
- ZuniCategory 1 · 57 mi
- Fort EustisCategory 1 · 61 mi
- CourtlandCategory 1 · 62 mi
- HayesCategory 1 · 64 mi
- MathewsCategory 1 · 67 mi
- CapronCategory 1 · 67 mi
- WakefieldCategory 1 · 69 mi
- GloucesterCategory 1 · 72 mi
- WilliamsburgCategory 1 · 74 mi
Other storms of the 1955 season
- BrendaTropical storm · 146 cities
- ConnieCategory 4 · 1,115 cities
- DianeCategory 2 · 2,192 cities
- Unnamed (AL051955)Tropical storm · 246 cities
- HildaCategory 3 · 49 cities
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.