NHC AL132002 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Lili (2002)
September 21, 2002 – October 4, 2002
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Lili peaked at Category 4 with 144 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 148 US cities, 36 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Lili in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Lili from September 21, 2002 to October 4, 2002; its peak was 144 mph (Category 4). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on October 3 at 92 mph (Category 1), 31 miles from Abbeville, LA. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 148 US cities, in 3 states, most in Louisiana (135) and Mississippi (10). The strongest pass was 92 mph (Category 1) 60 miles from Berwick, LA; the centre came closest to Saint Landry, LA, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 148
- At hurricane strength
- 36
- States
- 3
144 mph
when closest
Cities Lili passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (135)
- BerwickCategory 1 · 60 mi
- Morgan CityCategory 1 · 62 mi
- PattersonCategory 1 · 55 mi
- FranklinCategory 1 · 43 mi
- Pierre PartCategory 1 · 64 mi
- NapoleonvilleCategory 1 · 74 mi
- JeaneretteCategory 1 · 36 mi
- Belle RoseCategory 1 · 72 mi
- AbbevilleCategory 1 · 8 mi
- ErathCategory 1 · 15 mi
- DelcambreCategory 1 · 18 mi
- New IberiaCategory 1 · 28 mi
- KaplanCategory 1 · 1 mi
- White CastleCategory 1 · 69 mi
- MauriceCategory 1 · 11 mi
- GueydanCategory 1 · 14 mi
- YoungsvilleCategory 1 · 19 mi
- Saint MartinvilleCategory 1 · 31 mi
- BroussardCategory 1 · 22 mi
- PlaquemineCategory 1 · 65 mi
- Saint GabrielCategory 1 · 74 mi
- DusonCategory 1 · 10 mi
- MorseCategory 1 · 11 mi
- LafayetteCategory 1 · 18 mi
- Lake ArthurCategory 1 · 24 mi
- CrowleyCategory 1 · 2 mi
- RayneCategory 1 · 5 mi
- ScottCategory 1 · 15 mi
- Bell CityCategory 1 · 42 mi
- AddisCategory 1 · 65 mi
- BruslyCategory 1 · 66 mi
- Breaux BridgeCategory 1 · 29 mi
- JenningsCategory 1 · 19 mi
- CarencroCategory 1 · 19 mi
- WelshCategory 1 · 28 mi
- Port AllenCategory 1 · 66 mi
- IotaTropical storm · 8 mi
- SunsetTropical storm · 18 mi
- ArnaudvilleTropical storm · 27 mi
- IowaTropical storm · 39 mi
- Lake CharlesTropical storm · 51 mi
- MaringouinTropical storm · 52 mi
- SulphurTropical storm · 61 mi
- VintonTropical storm · 74 mi
- Church PointTropical storm · 10 mi
- WestlakeTropical storm · 54 mi
- EuniceTropical storm · 1 mi
- BasileTropical storm · 11 mi
- EltonTropical storm · 18 mi
- KinderTropical storm · 27 mi
- RagleyTropical storm · 44 mi
- LongvilleTropical storm · 51 mi
- DequincyTropical storm · 60 mi
- MerryvilleTropical storm · 70 mi
- OpelousasTropical storm · 17 mi
- OberlinTropical storm · 22 mi
- MamouTropical storm · 3 mi
- Port BarreTropical storm · 27 mi
- Ville PlatteTropical storm · 3 mi
- WashingtonTropical storm · 18 mi
and 75 more
Mississippi (10)
- WoodvilleTropical storm · 53 mi
- CentrevilleTropical storm · 70 mi
- GlosterTropical storm · 73 mi
- RoxieTropical storm · 64 mi
- NatchezTropical storm · 48 mi
- LormanTropical storm · 58 mi
- FayetteTropical storm · 62 mi
- Port GibsonTropical storm · 60 mi
- VicksburgTropical storm · 58 mi
- EdwardsTropical storm · 72 mi
Arkansas (3)
- Junction CityTropical storm · 64 mi
- StrongTropical storm · 43 mi
- El DoradoTropical storm · 61 mi
Other storms of the 2002 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.