NHC AL031942 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1942
August 23, 1942 – September 1, 1942
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1942 storm peaked at Category 3 with 115 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 145 US cities, 91 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1942 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1942 (AL031942) from August 23, 1942 to September 1, 1942; its peak was 115 mph (Category 3). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 30 at 115 mph (Category 3), 10 miles from Seadrift, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 145 US cities, in 2 states, most in Texas (138). The strongest pass was 115 mph (Category 3) 44 miles from Port Aransas, TX; the centre came closest to Seadrift, TX, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- Cities within 75 mi
- 145
- At hurricane strength
- 91
- States
- 2
115 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1942 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (138)
- Port AransasCategory 3 · 44 mi
- Bay CityCategory 3 · 60 mi
- SweenyCategory 3 · 75 mi
- PalaciosCategory 3 · 38 mi
- Van VleckCategory 3 · 66 mi
- RockportCategory 3 · 31 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 3 · 43 mi
- InglesideCategory 3 · 47 mi
- SeadriftCategory 3 · 1 mi
- Corpus ChristiCategory 3 · 63 mi
- GregoryCategory 3 · 48 mi
- PortlandCategory 3 · 51 mi
- Port LavacaCategory 2 · 14 mi
- TaftCategory 2 · 48 mi
- RobstownCategory 2 · 72 mi
- OdemCategory 2 · 59 mi
- WhartonCategory 2 · 71 mi
- RefugioCategory 2 · 26 mi
- GanadoCategory 2 · 40 mi
- SintonCategory 2 · 51 mi
- El CampoCategory 2 · 58 mi
- EdnaCategory 2 · 31 mi
- InezCategory 2 · 20 mi
- VictoriaCategory 2 · 9 mi
- HallettsvilleCategory 2 · 44 mi
- ColumbusCategory 2 · 74 mi
- WeimarCategory 2 · 67 mi
- GoliadCategory 2 · 13 mi
- YoakumCategory 2 · 30 mi
- SkidmoreCategory 2 · 48 mi
- CueroCategory 1 · 16 mi
- MathisCategory 1 · 60 mi
- SchulenburgCategory 1 · 62 mi
- BeevilleCategory 1 · 38 mi
- ShinerCategory 1 · 40 mi
- SandiaCategory 1 · 65 mi
- YorktownCategory 1 · 3 mi
- FlatoniaCategory 1 · 59 mi
- KenedyCategory 1 · 19 mi
- GonzalesCategory 1 · 37 mi
- George WestCategory 1 · 59 mi
- Karnes CityCategory 1 · 13 mi
- Three RiversCategory 1 · 45 mi
- NixonCategory 1 · 16 mi
- Red RockCategory 1 · 65 mi
- Falls CityCategory 1 · 12 mi
- LulingCategory 1 · 43 mi
- StockdaleCategory 1 · 7 mi
- KingsburyCategory 1 · 38 mi
- DaleCategory 1 · 60 mi
- Cedar CreekCategory 1 · 75 mi
- LockhartCategory 1 · 54 mi
- FloresvilleCategory 1 · 4 mi
- La VerniaCategory 1 · 10 mi
- SeguinCategory 1 · 27 mi
- MartindaleCategory 1 · 47 mi
- MaxwellCategory 1 · 50 mi
- Del ValleCategory 1 · 73 mi
- AdkinsCategory 1 · 6 mi
- Mc QueeneyCategory 1 · 27 mi
and 78 more
Other storms of the 1942 season
- Unnamed (AL021942)Category 1 · 138 cities
- Unnamed (AL091942)Tropical storm · 53 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.