NHC AL141989 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Jerry (1989)
October 12, 1989 – October 16, 1989
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Jerry peaked at Category 1 with 86 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 124 US cities, 34 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Jerry in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Jerry from October 12, 1989 to October 16, 1989; its peak was 86 mph (Category 1). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on October 16 at 86 mph (Category 1), 10 miles from Hitchcock, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 124 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 86 mph (Category 1) 20 miles from Danbury, TX; the centre came closest to Baytown, TX, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 124
- At hurricane strength
- 34
- States
- 1
86 mph
when closest
Cities Jerry passed near, strongest first
Texas (124)
- DanburyCategory 1 · 20 mi
- FreeportCategory 1 · 22 mi
- CluteCategory 1 · 25 mi
- AngletonCategory 1 · 27 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 1 · 27 mi
- BrazoriaCategory 1 · 36 mi
- West ColumbiaCategory 1 · 40 mi
- SweenyCategory 1 · 43 mi
- Van VleckCategory 1 · 54 mi
- BolingCategory 1 · 56 mi
- Bay CityCategory 1 · 58 mi
- WhartonCategory 1 · 66 mi
- GalvestonCategory 1 · 10 mi
- HitchcockCategory 1 · overhead
- NeedvilleCategory 1 · 50 mi
- La MarqueCategory 1 · overhead
- Santa FeCategory 1 · 7 mi
- AlvinCategory 1 · 16 mi
- Texas CityCategory 1 · 3 mi
- RosharonCategory 1 · 28 mi
- BeasleyCategory 1 · 58 mi
- Crystal BeachCategory 1 · 18 mi
- East BernardCategory 1 · 67 mi
- DickinsonCategory 1 · 3 mi
- ManvelCategory 1 · 23 mi
- BacliffCategory 1 · overhead
- League CityCategory 1 · 7 mi
- FriendswoodCategory 1 · 13 mi
- FresnoCategory 1 · 29 mi
- RosenbergCategory 1 · 51 mi
- KemahCategory 1 · 4 mi
- WebsterCategory 1 · 10 mi
- PearlandCategory 1 · 21 mi
- Missouri CityCategory 1 · 34 mi
- SeabrookTropical storm · 4 mi
- Sugar LandTropical storm · 40 mi
- RichmondTropical storm · 49 mi
- WallisTropical storm · 66 mi
- StaffordTropical storm · 36 mi
- FulshearTropical storm · 57 mi
- La PorteTropical storm · 5 mi
- PasadenaTropical storm · 13 mi
- South HoustonTropical storm · 16 mi
- Deer ParkTropical storm · 10 mi
- BellaireTropical storm · 30 mi
- Galena ParkTropical storm · 17 mi
- AnahuacTropical storm · 18 mi
- SealyTropical storm · 72 mi
- HoustonTropical storm · 29 mi
- KatyTropical storm · 49 mi
- BrookshireTropical storm · 62 mi
- BaytownTropical storm · overhead
- ChannelviewTropical storm · 10 mi
- HighlandsTropical storm · 6 mi
- WinnieTropical storm · 33 mi
- CypressTropical storm · 45 mi
- CrosbyTropical storm · 8 mi
- TomballTropical storm · 37 mi
- HumbleTropical storm · 18 mi
- Port ArthurTropical storm · 60 mi
and 64 more
Other storms of the 1989 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.