NHC AL192020 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Sally (2020)
September 11, 2020 – September 18, 2020
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Sally peaked at Category 2 with 109 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 191 US cities, 60 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Sally in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Sally from September 11, 2020 to September 18, 2020; its peak was 109 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks 2 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site, the first on September 12 at 35 mph (tropical depression), 7 miles from Key Biscayne, FL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 191 US cities, in 3 states, most in Florida (100) and Alabama (82). The strongest pass was 109 mph (Category 2) 1 mile from Gulf Shores, AL.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 191
- At hurricane strength
- 60
- States
- 3
109 mph
when closest
Cities Sally passed near, strongest first
Alabama (82)
- Gulf ShoresCategory 2 · overhead
- CodenCategory 2 · 29 mi
- IrvingtonCategory 2 · 34 mi
- Grand BayCategory 2 · 39 mi
- Orange BeachCategory 2 · 8 mi
- TheodoreCategory 2 · 32 mi
- FoleyCategory 2 · 2 mi
- ElbertaCategory 2 · 5 mi
- FairhopeCategory 2 · 16 mi
- SummerdaleCategory 2 · 6 mi
- LillianCategory 2 · 11 mi
- MobileCategory 2 · 35 mi
- SilverhillCategory 2 · 10 mi
- DaphneCategory 2 · 19 mi
- PrichardCategory 2 · 33 mi
- WhistlerCategory 2 · 35 mi
- SemmesCategory 2 · 44 mi
- WilmerCategory 2 · 50 mi
- Spanish FortCategory 2 · 22 mi
- ChickasawCategory 2 · 34 mi
- Eight MileCategory 2 · 39 mi
- RobertsdaleCategory 2 · 5 mi
- LoxleyCategory 2 · 12 mi
- SaralandCategory 1 · 37 mi
- SatsumaCategory 1 · 36 mi
- ChunchulaCategory 1 · 46 mi
- CitronelleCategory 1 · 54 mi
- Bay MinetteCategory 1 · 21 mi
- Mount VernonCategory 1 · 42 mi
- McintoshCategory 1 · 50 mi
- AtmoreCategory 1 · 15 mi
- ChatomCategory 1 · 67 mi
- FlomatonTropical storm · overhead
- JacksonTropical storm · 49 mi
- BrewtonTropical storm · 3 mi
- Frisco CityTropical storm · 25 mi
- Grove HillTropical storm · 53 mi
- MonroevilleTropical storm · 24 mi
- ThomasvilleTropical storm · 63 mi
- EvergreenTropical storm · 6 mi
- FloralaTropical storm · 41 mi
- Pine HillTropical storm · 56 mi
- Red LevelTropical storm · 12 mi
- AndalusiaTropical storm · 22 mi
- GeorgianaTropical storm · 6 mi
- BrantleyTropical storm · 23 mi
- LuverneTropical storm · 27 mi
- Fort DepositTropical storm · 28 mi
- OppTropical storm · 34 mi
- ElbaTropical storm · 39 mi
- HaynevilleTropical storm · 40 mi
- KinstonTropical storm · 42 mi
- CamdenTropical storm · 43 mi
- RamerTropical storm · 46 mi
- Hope HullTropical storm · 47 mi
- TroyTropical storm · 47 mi
- New BrocktonTropical storm · 48 mi
- BrundidgeTropical storm · 52 mi
- SamsonTropical storm · 52 mi
- EnterpriseTropical storm · 54 mi
and 22 more
Mississippi (9)
- PascagoulaCategory 2 · 48 mi
- Moss PointCategory 2 · 49 mi
- GautierCategory 2 · 55 mi
- Ocean SpringsCategory 2 · 62 mi
- VancleaveCategory 2 · 65 mi
- DibervilleCategory 2 · 69 mi
- BiloxiCategory 2 · 71 mi
- LucedaleCategory 2 · 64 mi
- LeakesvilleCategory 1 · 74 mi
Florida (100)
- PensacolaCategory 1 · 19 mi
- CantonmentCategory 1 · 11 mi
- NavarreCategory 1 · 39 mi
- PaceCategory 1 · 18 mi
- Gulf BreezeCategory 1 · 25 mi
- Mary EstherCategory 1 · 49 mi
- MolinoCategory 1 · 5 mi
- Fort Walton BeachCategory 1 · 53 mi
- Mc DavidCategory 1 · 7 mi
- MiltonCategory 1 · 25 mi
- Hurlburt FieldCategory 1 · 50 mi
- ShalimarCategory 1 · 55 mi
- Eglin AfbCategory 1 · 56 mi
- DestinCategory 1 · 64 mi
- Miramar BeachCategory 1 · 68 mi
- ValparaisoCategory 1 · 57 mi
- NicevilleCategory 1 · 59 mi
- CenturyCategory 1 · 1 mi
- JayCategory 1 · 10 mi
- BakerTropical storm · 33 mi
- CrestviewTropical storm · 45 mi
- FreeportTropical storm · 74 mi
- Defuniak SpringsTropical storm · 65 mi
- Laurel HillTropical storm · 41 mi
- Holmes BeachTropical storm · 73 mi
- Longboat KeyTropical storm · 70 mi
- SarasotaTropical storm · 72 mi
- NokomisTropical storm · 64 mi
- OspreyTropical storm · 65 mi
- VeniceTropical storm · 62 mi
- EnglewoodTropical storm · 58 mi
- WestvilleTropical storm · 66 mi
- North PortTropical storm · 70 mi
- PlacidaTropical storm · 54 mi
- Rotonda WestTropical storm · 58 mi
- Port CharlotteTropical storm · 67 mi
- Punta GordaTropical storm · 69 mi
- BokeeliaTropical storm · 50 mi
- Marco IslandTropical storm · 18 mi
- Florida CityTropical storm · 18 mi
- HomesteadTropical storm · 23 mi
- Cutler BayTropical storm · 29 mi
- Palmetto BayTropical storm · 32 mi
- NaplesTropical storm · 33 mi
- South MiamiTropical storm · 34 mi
- MiamiTropical storm · 35 mi
- Key LargoTropical storm · 35 mi
- DoralTropical storm · 36 mi
- Coral GablesTropical storm · 37 mi
- SanibelTropical storm · 39 mi
- HialeahTropical storm · 40 mi
- Bonita SpringsTropical storm · 41 mi
- IslamoradaTropical storm · 41 mi
- Miami LakesTropical storm · 41 mi
- Key BiscayneTropical storm · 42 mi
- Fort Myers BeachTropical storm · 43 mi
- Opa LockaTropical storm · 44 mi
- St James CityTropical storm · 44 mi
- Miami ShoresTropical storm · 45 mi
- Miami GardensTropical storm · 45 mi
and 40 more
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
- MarcoCategory 1 · 6 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.