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NHC AL112004 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Jeanne (2004)

September 13, 2004 – September 29, 2004

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

Hurricane Jeanne peaked at Category 3 with 121 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 558 US cities, 117 of them while still at hurricane strength.

Jeanne in the record

HURDAT2 tracks Jeanne for 16 days, from September 13, 2004 to September 29, 2004. Its first position, at 15.9°N 60.0°W, records it as a tropical depression; its last, at 38.5°N 72.5°W, as an extratropical cyclone. It reached tropical-storm strength on September 14, hurricane strength on September 16 and major-hurricane strength on September 25. Its peak was 121 mph (105 knots), Category 3, on September 25, and its lowest central pressure was 950 millibars on September 26. It spent about 6 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks 2 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site; they were on September 15 at 69 mph (tropical storm), 2 miles from Patillas, PR; on September 26 at 121 mph (Category 3), 3 miles from Stuart, FL. It has 3 more landfalls in the record farther from the cities here. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 558 US cities, in 8 states and territories, most in Florida (283) and Puerto Rico (86), between September 15 and September 29. The strongest pass was 121 mph (Category 3) 3 miles from Stuart, FL; the centre came closest to Bartow, FL, less than a mile away. 117 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 42 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 82% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 2nd of the 9 storms of 2004 here.

Peak strength
Category 3

121 mph

Cities within 75 mi
558
At hurricane strength
117

when closest

States
8
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Cities Jeanne passed near, strongest first

Florida (283)

and 223 more

Puerto Rico (86)

and 26 more

Georgia (55)

New Jersey (73)

and 13 more

Delaware (31)

Maryland (27)

Virginia (2)

Alabama (1)

Other storms of the 2004 season

  • AlexCategory 3 · 36 cities
  • BonnieTropical storm · 23 cities
  • CharleyCategory 4 · 750 cities
  • FrancesCategory 4 · 523 cities
  • GastonCategory 1 · 284 cities
  • HermineTropical storm · 329 cities
  • IvanCategory 5 · 191 cities
  • MatthewTropical storm · 49 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.