NHC AL142021 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Nicholas (2021)
September 12, 2021 – September 17, 2021
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Nicholas peaked at Category 1 with 75 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 127 US cities, 9 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Nicholas in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Nicholas from September 12, 2021 to September 17, 2021; its peak was 75 mph (Category 1). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 14 at 75 mph (Category 1), 22 miles from Bay City, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 127 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 75 mph (Category 1) 28 miles from Palacios, TX; the centre came closest to Brazoria, TX, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 127
- At hurricane strength
- 9
- States
- 1
75 mph
when closest
Cities Nicholas passed near, strongest first
Texas (127)
- PalaciosCategory 1 · 28 mi
- SeadriftCategory 1 · 41 mi
- Port LavacaCategory 1 · 44 mi
- GanadoCategory 1 · 51 mi
- EdnaCategory 1 · 59 mi
- InezCategory 1 · 64 mi
- RefugioCategory 1 · 68 mi
- VictoriaCategory 1 · 71 mi
- Bay CityCategory 1 · 17 mi
- RockportTropical storm · 50 mi
- Van VleckTropical storm · 18 mi
- El CampoTropical storm · 44 mi
- Aransas PassTropical storm · 53 mi
- TaftTropical storm · 67 mi
- Port AransasTropical storm · 46 mi
- InglesideTropical storm · 55 mi
- GregoryTropical storm · 61 mi
- PortlandTropical storm · 62 mi
- BrazoriaTropical storm · overhead
- SweenyTropical storm · 9 mi
- Corpus ChristiTropical storm · 63 mi
- Lake JacksonTropical storm · 6 mi
- FreeportTropical storm · 13 mi
- BolingTropical storm · 26 mi
- WhartonTropical storm · 37 mi
- CluteTropical storm · 8 mi
- West ColumbiaTropical storm · 9 mi
- AngletonTropical storm · 2 mi
- Eagle LakeTropical storm · 58 mi
- ColumbusTropical storm · 75 mi
- NeedvilleTropical storm · 26 mi
- East BernardTropical storm · 44 mi
- LyfordTropical storm · 65 mi
- RaymondvilleTropical storm · 72 mi
- DanburyTropical storm · 6 mi
- South Padre IslandTropical storm · 30 mi
- BeasleyTropical storm · 35 mi
- Port IsabelTropical storm · 35 mi
- Los FresnosTropical storm · 47 mi
- Rio HondoTropical storm · 53 mi
- San BenitoTropical storm · 59 mi
- HarlingenTropical storm · 64 mi
- La FeriaTropical storm · 71 mi
- Santa RosaTropical storm · 72 mi
- Sugar LandTropical storm · 25 mi
- RosenbergTropical storm · 31 mi
- RichmondTropical storm · 31 mi
- KatyTropical storm · 41 mi
- FulshearTropical storm · 41 mi
- WallisTropical storm · 46 mi
- BrownsvilleTropical storm · 48 mi
- BrookshireTropical storm · 49 mi
- OlmitoTropical storm · 53 mi
- SealyTropical storm · 56 mi
- HempsteadTropical storm · 68 mi
- BellvilleTropical storm · 70 mi
- RosharonTropical storm · 9 mi
- Prairie ViewTropical storm · 65 mi
- FresnoTropical storm · 15 mi
- Missouri CityTropical storm · 20 mi
and 67 more
Other storms of the 2021 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.