NHC AL081933 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1933
August 22, 1933 – September 5, 1933
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Unnamed 1933 storm peaked at Category 5 with 161 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 32 US cities, 27 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1933 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1933 (AL081933) from August 22, 1933 to September 5, 1933; its peak was 161 mph (Category 5). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 5 at 127 mph (Category 3), 2 miles from South Padre Island, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 32 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 127 mph (Category 3) 1 mile from South Padre Island, TX; the centre came closest to Los Fresnos, TX, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 5
- Cities within 75 mi
- 32
- At hurricane strength
- 27
- States
- 1
161 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1933 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (32)
- South Padre IslandCategory 3 · overhead
- Port IsabelCategory 3 · 1 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 2 · overhead
- BrownsvilleCategory 2 · 11 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 2 · 11 mi
- OlmitoCategory 2 · 4 mi
- San BenitoCategory 2 · 3 mi
- LyfordCategory 2 · 23 mi
- HarlingenCategory 2 · 10 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 2 · 31 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 1 · 16 mi
- La FeriaCategory 1 · 8 mi
- MercedesCategory 1 · 11 mi
- La VillaCategory 1 · 20 mi
- EdcouchCategory 1 · 23 mi
- ElsaCategory 1 · 21 mi
- ProgresoCategory 1 · 6 mi
- DonnaCategory 1 · 13 mi
- WeslacoCategory 1 · 21 mi
- EdinburgCategory 1 · 26 mi
- AlamoCategory 1 · 14 mi
- San JuanCategory 1 · 16 mi
- AltonCategory 1 · 32 mi
- PharrCategory 1 · 17 mi
- McallenCategory 1 · 20 mi
- HidalgoCategory 1 · 12 mi
- MissionCategory 1 · 22 mi
- PenitasTropical storm · 24 mi
- La JoyaTropical storm · 25 mi
- Sullivan CityTropical storm · 27 mi
- Rio Grande CityTropical storm · 41 mi
- RomaTropical storm · 49 mi
Other storms of the 1933 season
- Unnamed (AL031933)Tropical storm · 35 cities
- Unnamed (AL051933)Category 1 · 233 cities
- Unnamed (AL061933)Category 4 · 1,018 cities
- Unnamed (AL111933)Category 4 · 431 cities
- Unnamed (AL121933)Category 4 · 14 cities
- Unnamed (AL171933)Category 3 · 15 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.