NHC AL142020 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Marco (2020)
August 20, 2020 – August 25, 2020
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Marco peaked at Category 1 with 75 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 6 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Marco in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Marco from August 20, 2020 to August 25, 2020; its peak was 75 mph (Category 1). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 6 US cities, all in Louisiana. The strongest pass was 40 mph (tropical storm) 52 miles from Port Sulphur, LA; the centre came closest to Buras, LA, 33 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 6
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
75 mph
when closest
Cities Marco passed near, strongest first
Louisiana (6)
- Port SulphurTropical storm · 52 mi
- Golden MeadowTropical storm · 62 mi
- LafitteTropical storm · 71 mi
- GallianoTropical storm · 71 mi
- Saint BernardTropical storm · 73 mi
- BurasTropical storm · 33 mi
Other storms of the 2020 season
- ArthurTropical storm · 15 cities
- BerthaTropical storm · 64 cities
- CristobalTropical storm · 276 cities
- FayTropical storm · 885 cities
- DouglasCategory 4 · 43 cities
- HannaCategory 1 · 44 cities
- IsaiasCategory 1 · 2,213 cities
- LauraCategory 4 · 327 cities
- SallyCategory 2 · 191 cities
- BetaTropical storm · 49 cities
- DeltaCategory 4 · 169 cities
- ZetaCategory 3 · 1,509 cities
- EtaCategory 4 · 240 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.