NHC AL011943 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1943
July 25, 1943 – July 30, 1943
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1943 storm peaked at Category 2 with 104 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 201 US cities, 56 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1943 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1943 (AL011943) from July 25, 1943 to July 30, 1943; its peak was 104 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on July 27 at 104 mph (Category 2), 7 miles from Crystal Beach, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 201 US cities, in 2 states, most in Texas (200). The strongest pass was 104 mph (Category 2) 25 miles from Winnie, TX; the centre came closest to Hockley, TX, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 201
- At hurricane strength
- 56
- States
- 2
104 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1943 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (200)
- WinnieCategory 2 · 25 mi
- Port ArthurCategory 2 · 44 mi
- NederlandCategory 2 · 46 mi
- GrovesCategory 2 · 47 mi
- BeaumontCategory 2 · 48 mi
- Port NechesCategory 2 · 48 mi
- Bridge CityCategory 2 · 54 mi
- VidorCategory 2 · 56 mi
- LumbertonCategory 2 · 56 mi
- OrangeCategory 2 · 62 mi
- BunaCategory 2 · 75 mi
- Crystal BeachCategory 2 · 6 mi
- SilsbeeCategory 2 · 66 mi
- GalvestonCategory 2 · 20 mi
- AnahuacCategory 2 · 10 mi
- Sour LakeCategory 2 · 45 mi
- KountzeCategory 2 · 61 mi
- Texas CityCategory 2 · 15 mi
- La MarqueCategory 1 · 18 mi
- HitchcockCategory 1 · 20 mi
- BacliffCategory 1 · 9 mi
- DickinsonCategory 1 · 13 mi
- WarrenCategory 1 · 74 mi
- KemahCategory 1 · 8 mi
- Santa FeCategory 1 · 20 mi
- SeabrookCategory 1 · 6 mi
- BaytownCategory 1 · 8 mi
- League CityCategory 1 · 12 mi
- LibertyCategory 1 · 31 mi
- FreeportCategory 1 · 52 mi
- La PorteCategory 1 · overhead
- WebsterCategory 1 · 11 mi
- DaytonCategory 1 · 27 mi
- CluteCategory 1 · 49 mi
- FriendswoodCategory 1 · 14 mi
- AlvinCategory 1 · 22 mi
- DanburyCategory 1 · 36 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 1 · 50 mi
- Deer ParkCategory 1 · 1 mi
- HighlandsCategory 1 · 9 mi
- PasadenaCategory 1 · 3 mi
- ChannelviewCategory 1 · 5 mi
- AngletonCategory 1 · 42 mi
- CrosbyCategory 1 · 15 mi
- South HoustonCategory 1 · 6 mi
- BrazoriaCategory 1 · 55 mi
- PearlandCategory 1 · 15 mi
- ManvelCategory 1 · 20 mi
- Galena ParkCategory 1 · 1 mi
- HuffmanCategory 1 · 22 mi
- ClevelandCategory 1 · 41 mi
- RosharonCategory 1 · 26 mi
- FresnoCategory 1 · 20 mi
- West ColumbiaCategory 1 · 49 mi
- SweenyCategory 1 · 56 mi
- HumbleTropical storm · 15 mi
- KingwoodTropical storm · 20 mi
- ShepherdTropical storm · 52 mi
- New CaneyTropical storm · 28 mi
- SplendoraTropical storm · 31 mi
and 140 more
Louisiana (1)
- VintonCategory 2 · 71 mi
Other storms of the 1943 season
- Unnamed (AL021943)Tropical storm · 27 cities
- Unnamed (AL061943)Category 2 · 35 cities
- Unnamed (AL071943)Tropical storm · 563 cities
- Unnamed (AL091943)Category 2 · 34 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.