NHC AL051945 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1945
August 24, 1945 – August 29, 1945
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1945 storm peaked at Category 3 with 115 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 219 US cities, 75 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1945 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1945 (AL051945) from August 24, 1945 to August 29, 1945; its peak was 115 mph (Category 3). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 27 at 115 mph (Category 3), 14 miles from Seadrift, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 219 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 115 mph (Category 3) 5 miles from Port Aransas, TX; the centre came closest to Palacios, TX, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- Cities within 75 mi
- 219
- At hurricane strength
- 75
- States
- 1
115 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1945 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (219)
- Port AransasCategory 3 · 5 mi
- RockportCategory 3 · 12 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 3 · 12 mi
- InglesideCategory 3 · 13 mi
- GregoryCategory 3 · 20 mi
- PortlandCategory 3 · 20 mi
- Corpus ChristiCategory 3 · 25 mi
- TaftCategory 3 · 26 mi
- RefugioCategory 3 · 33 mi
- SintonCategory 3 · 36 mi
- OdemCategory 3 · 38 mi
- RobstownCategory 3 · 42 mi
- BishopCategory 3 · 48 mi
- SkidmoreCategory 3 · 52 mi
- KingsvilleCategory 3 · 53 mi
- GoliadCategory 3 · 54 mi
- MathisCategory 3 · 55 mi
- SandiaCategory 3 · 60 mi
- BeevilleCategory 3 · 62 mi
- Orange GroveCategory 3 · 66 mi
- AliceCategory 3 · 67 mi
- PremontCategory 3 · 69 mi
- FalfurriasCategory 3 · 74 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 3 · 70 mi
- YorktownCategory 3 · 73 mi
- SeadriftCategory 3 · 10 mi
- LyfordCategory 3 · 67 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 3 · 60 mi
- HarlingenCategory 3 · 72 mi
- VictoriaCategory 2 · 42 mi
- Port LavacaCategory 2 · 15 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 2 · 58 mi
- CueroCategory 2 · 67 mi
- San BenitoCategory 2 · 69 mi
- South Padre IslandCategory 2 · 41 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 2 · 47 mi
- OlmitoCategory 2 · 66 mi
- InezCategory 2 · 37 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 2 · 63 mi
- PalaciosCategory 2 · overhead
- EdnaCategory 2 · 32 mi
- GanadoCategory 1 · 26 mi
- Bay CityCategory 1 · 9 mi
- Van VleckCategory 1 · 11 mi
- SweenyCategory 1 · 21 mi
- BrazoriaCategory 1 · 30 mi
- FreeportCategory 1 · 44 mi
- YoakumCategory 1 · 65 mi
- El CampoCategory 1 · 14 mi
- Lake JacksonCategory 1 · 38 mi
- CluteCategory 1 · 40 mi
- West ColumbiaCategory 1 · 23 mi
- BolingCategory 1 · 6 mi
- AngletonCategory 1 · 36 mi
- HallettsvilleCategory 1 · 51 mi
- WhartonCategory 1 · 4 mi
- DanburyCategory 1 · 41 mi
- NeedvilleCategory 1 · 11 mi
- RosharonCategory 1 · 33 mi
- ManvelCategory 1 · 39 mi
and 159 more
Other storms of the 1945 season
- Unnamed (AL011945)Category 2 · 307 cities
- Unnamed (AL031945)Tropical storm · 21 cities
- Unnamed (AL071945)Tropical storm · 65 cities
- Unnamed (AL091945)Category 4 · 1,120 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.