NHC AL162023 · Atlantic basin
Tropical Storm Ophelia (2023)
September 21, 2023 – September 24, 2023
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Ophelia peaked at Tropical storm with 69 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 195 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Ophelia in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Ophelia from September 21, 2023 to September 24, 2023; its peak was 69 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 23 at 69 mph (tropical storm), less than a mile from Swansboro, NC. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 195 US cities, in 2 states, most in North Carolina (152). The strongest pass was 69 mph (tropical storm) less than a mile from Swansboro, NC.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 195
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 2
69 mph
when closest
Cities Ophelia passed near, strongest first
North Carolina (152)
- SwansboroTropical storm · overhead
- Emerald IsleTropical storm · 5 mi
- HubertTropical storm · 6 mi
- Camp LejeuneTropical storm · 13 mi
- Atlantic BeachTropical storm · 18 mi
- Sneads FerryTropical storm · 18 mi
- Holly RidgeTropical storm · 26 mi
- HampsteadTropical storm · 31 mi
- Maple HillTropical storm · 31 mi
- Wrightsville BeachTropical storm · 40 mi
- WilmingtonTropical storm · 44 mi
- Rocky PointTropical storm · 45 mi
- Carolina BeachTropical storm · 46 mi
- Castle HayneTropical storm · 46 mi
- Kure BeachTropical storm · 46 mi
- BurgawTropical storm · 47 mi
- WinnabowTropical storm · 54 mi
- SouthportTropical storm · 55 mi
- WillardTropical storm · 55 mi
- LelandTropical storm · 55 mi
- CurrieTropical storm · 57 mi
- Oak IslandTropical storm · 59 mi
- AtkinsonTropical storm · 62 mi
- BoliviaTropical storm · 62 mi
- DelcoTropical storm · 67 mi
- RiegelwoodTropical storm · 67 mi
- SupplyTropical storm · 69 mi
- HarrellsTropical storm · 69 mi
- BoltonTropical storm · 73 mi
- ShallotteTropical storm · 74 mi
- Midway ParkTropical storm · 12 mi
- Tarawa TerraceTropical storm · 15 mi
- Morehead CityTropical storm · 20 mi
- WallaceTropical storm · 50 mi
- NewportTropical storm · 13 mi
- JacksonvilleTropical storm · 18 mi
- BeaufortTropical storm · 26 mi
- TeacheyTropical storm · 52 mi
- GarlandTropical storm · 74 mi
- Rose HillTropical storm · 53 mi
- MaysvilleTropical storm · 7 mi
- Cherry PointTropical storm · 11 mi
- HavelockTropical storm · 12 mi
- RichlandsTropical storm · 27 mi
- BeulavilleTropical storm · 38 mi
- MagnoliaTropical storm · 54 mi
- KenansvilleTropical storm · 48 mi
- Pink HillTropical storm · 35 mi
- TrentonTropical storm · 19 mi
- OrientalTropical storm · 23 mi
- New BernTropical storm · 2 mi
- GrantsboroTropical storm · 14 mi
- BayboroTropical storm · 22 mi
- Cove CityTropical storm · 10 mi
- AuroraTropical storm · 21 mi
- Deep RunTropical storm · 32 mi
- WarsawTropical storm · 56 mi
- ClintonTropical storm · 69 mi
- VanceboroTropical storm · overhead
- KinstonTropical storm · 24 mi
and 92 more
Virginia (43)
- EmporiaTropical storm · 27 mi
- CapronTropical storm · 33 mi
- LawrencevilleTropical storm · 34 mi
- JarrattTropical storm · 35 mi
- CourtlandTropical storm · 39 mi
- BraceyTropical storm · 39 mi
- BrodnaxTropical storm · 41 mi
- La CrosseTropical storm · 41 mi
- South HillTropical storm · 48 mi
- Mc KenneyTropical storm · 50 mi
- BoydtonTropical storm · 50 mi
- ZuniTropical storm · 52 mi
- DinwiddieTropical storm · 52 mi
- WaverlyTropical storm · 54 mi
- WakefieldTropical storm · 54 mi
- KenbridgeTropical storm · 55 mi
- WindsorTropical storm · 56 mi
- DisputantaTropical storm · 59 mi
- BlackstoneTropical storm · 60 mi
- SuffolkTropical storm · 61 mi
- SutherlandTropical storm · 62 mi
- ClarksvilleTropical storm · 62 mi
- VictoriaTropical storm · 62 mi
- PetersburgTropical storm · 62 mi
- Church RoadTropical storm · 63 mi
- Chase CityTropical storm · 64 mi
- Prince GeorgeTropical storm · 66 mi
- Fort LeeTropical storm · 66 mi
- Spring GroveTropical storm · 67 mi
- SmithfieldTropical storm · 67 mi
- Colonial HeightsTropical storm · 67 mi
- CreweTropical storm · 69 mi
- HopewellTropical storm · 69 mi
- CarrolltonTropical storm · 69 mi
- ChesterTropical storm · 73 mi
- Drakes BranchTropical storm · 73 mi
- BurkevilleTropical storm · 73 mi
- KeysvilleTropical storm · 73 mi
- MeherrinTropical storm · 73 mi
- PortsmouthTropical storm · 73 mi
- ChesterfieldTropical storm · 75 mi
- FranklinTropical storm · 35 mi
- ChesapeakeTropical storm · 71 mi
Other storms of the 2023 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.