NHC AL131950 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Love (1950)
October 18, 1950 – October 22, 1950
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Love peaked at Category 1 with 81 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 60 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Love in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Love from October 18, 1950 to October 22, 1950; its peak was 81 mph (Category 1). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on October 21 at 58 mph (tropical storm), 18 miles from Cross City, FL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 60 US cities, in 2 states, most in Florida (53). The strongest pass was 62 mph (tropical storm) 73 miles from Homosassa, FL; the centre came closest to Live Oak, FL, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 60
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 2
81 mph
when closest
Cities Love passed near, strongest first
Florida (53)
- HomosassaTropical storm · 73 mi
- Crystal RiverTropical storm · 66 mi
- Beverly HillsTropical storm · 72 mi
- LecantoTropical storm · 74 mi
- InglisTropical storm · 57 mi
- DunnellonTropical storm · 71 mi
- Citrus SpringsTropical storm · 72 mi
- CarrabelleTropical storm · 74 mi
- MorristonTropical storm · 60 mi
- PanaceaTropical storm · 62 mi
- Cross CityTropical storm · 18 mi
- PerryTropical storm · 21 mi
- Old TownTropical storm · 24 mi
- TrentonTropical storm · 34 mi
- ChieflandTropical storm · 36 mi
- BronsonTropical storm · 51 mi
- ArcherTropical storm · 52 mi
- WillistonTropical storm · 59 mi
- CrawfordvilleTropical storm · 66 mi
- SandersonTropical storm · 71 mi
- ReddickTropical storm · 74 mi
- BellTropical storm · 27 mi
- TallahasseeTropical storm · 70 mi
- NewberryTropical storm · 46 mi
- MicanopyTropical storm · 67 mi
- MayoTropical storm · 2 mi
- BranfordTropical storm · 19 mi
- GainesvilleTropical storm · 57 mi
- O BrienTropical storm · 14 mi
- Fort WhiteTropical storm · 30 mi
- High SpringsTropical storm · 39 mi
- AlachuaTropical storm · 45 mi
- GreenvilleTropical storm · 37 mi
- MonticelloTropical storm · 52 mi
- Mc AlpinTropical storm · 8 mi
- MelroseTropical storm · 73 mi
- Live OakTropical storm · overhead
- WellbornTropical storm · 15 mi
- LeeTropical storm · 16 mi
- MadisonTropical storm · 25 mi
- Lake ButlerTropical storm · 44 mi
- HamptonTropical storm · 61 mi
- Keystone HeightsTropical storm · 71 mi
- Lake CityTropical storm · 24 mi
- StarkeTropical storm · 60 mi
- White SpringsTropical storm · 12 mi
- RaifordTropical storm · 50 mi
- JasperTropical storm · 2 mi
- JenningsTropical storm · 15 mi
- LawteyTropical storm · 57 mi
- Glen Saint MaryTropical storm · 43 mi
- MiddleburgTropical storm · 67 mi
- MacclennyTropical storm · 48 mi
Other storms of the 1950 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.