How many times has your area been affected?

[jdray]

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/hez_tool/states/florida.html

Don't know if this has been posted before, but this is a list of all hurricanes that have come within 10 miles of Florida since 1851.


Also, good little tool to see how close and how many storms come to a zip code.
http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/viewer.html
Click on find, enter zip code, then select options.

[Steve]

Pretty cool. There have been 8 storms within 10 miles of my zipcode. They were all between September 6th and September 30th. The strongest was an unnamed storm in 1915. They didn't include 2003's Tropical Storm Bill for whatever reason, but the center-of-circulation-wall passed right over my house. Even still, pretty cool.

Steve

[GalvestonDuck]

It only takes one.

[TreasureIslandFLGal]

There hasn't been a single storm to come within 10 miles of my zip in all the years.
wow

[Scorpion]

Yikes!

[Scorpion]

But only 19 major hurricanes have come within 50 miles of my area.

[wxcrazytwo]

13 here in mulberry, but now I live in Tampa, so we will see.

[Brent]

Yikes!

[TreasureIslandFLGal]

and only 3 hurricanes in that entire time have come within 25 miles. it was 1950 since a hurricane came within 25 miles of the area. before that, the 1921 hurricane and before that was 1852. so they are extremely rare for us here. no wonder we have had such a boom in real estate.

[Scorpion]

They all seem to converge on my area.

[Blown Away]

8 hurricanes within 10 miles
20 hurricanes within 25 miles
Cool link, thanks!

[MomH]

Guess living inland is not all its cracked up to be

Put in main post office zip for my city, "all storms" and 25 miles ended up with 32 storms and 52 days.

Narrowed it to all hurricanes cat. 1-4, within 50 miles and ended up with 23 hurricanes and 37 days.

I'm moving to the mountains.

[cybercyclone]

At ten miles I have 0 Hurricanes and 5 tropical storms.

Expanding to 25 miles Hurricanes only increase to 1, Cat1, but storms increase up to 19.

[Guest]

I had the remnants of Alicia move into the area between Lincoln and Grand Island, NE. That was back in 1983.

[dhweather]

The only majors within 50 miles in the last 50 years were
Elena and some gal named Camille.

[DoctorHurricane2003]

25 Nautical Miles--
38 Storms......last one was Helene, 2000 (Ivan qualified under 50)
+1 with Arlene, 2005
= 39 Storms


10 Nautical Miles--
7 Storms.....last one was Opal, 1995, also the strongest.

+1 with Arlene, 2005

= 8 Storms

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Passed (center) within 50 miles, or less 1851 - 2004:


3 Hurricanes.


2 TS; 70 mph.


3 TS; 60 mph.


2 TS; 55 mph.


1 TS; 50 mph.


3 TS; 45 mph.


3 TS; 40 mph.


Passed (center) within between 70 and 55 miles 1851 - 2004:


1 Hurricane.


1 TS; 50 mph.


2TS; 40 mph


++ I didn't count systems that became extratropical before entering my region (like the remnants of Hurricane Floyd, that dropped around 3 inches of rain on my area, and knocked out the power briefly, in 1999).


Hybridstorm_November2001

[webke]

Hurricane Track
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Rec YEAR MONTH DAY STORM NAME WIND SPEED(KTS) PRESSURE(MB) CATEGORY
1 1852 8 28 NOTNAMED 40 0 TS
2 1874 9 28 NOTNAMED 80 981 H1
3 1874 9 29 NOTNAMED 70 0 H1
4 1883 9 11 NOTNAMED 90 0 H2
5 1883 9 11 NOTNAMED 90 0 H2
6 1885 8 25 NOTNAMED 90 0 H2
7 1885 8 25 NOTNAMED 80 0 H1
8 1893 6 16 NOTNAMED 50 0 TS
9 1894 9 27 NOTNAMED 65 0 H1
10 1894 9 28 NOTNAMED 60 0 TS
11 1894 10 9 NOTNAMED 60 0 TS
12 1899 10 31 NOTNAMED 95 0 H2
13 1901 7 13 NOTNAMED 35 0 TS
14 1901 7 13 NOTNAMED 35 0 TS
15 1901 9 18 NOTNAMED 35 0 TS
16 1907 6 29 NOTNAMED 55 0 TS
17 1910 10 20 NOTNAMED 60 0 TS
18 1910 10 20 NOTNAMED 60 0 TS
19 1916 9 6 NOTNAMED 35 0 TS
20 1920 9 23 NOTNAMED 65 0 H1
21 1928 9 18 NOTNAMED 60 0 TS
22 1928 9 19 NOTNAMED 50 981 TS
23 1944 8 1 NOTNAMED 80 990 H1
24 1946 7 6 NOTNAMED 40 0 TS
25 1946 7 6 NOTNAMED 40 0 TS
26 1954 10 15 HAZEL 110 937 H3
27 1960 7 29 BRENDA 45 0 TS
28 1964 9 13 DORA 45 0 TS
29 1968 6 10 ABBY 25 0 TD
30 1977 9 5 CLARA 20 1014 TD
31 1981 8 20 DENNIS 50 999 TS
32 1984 9 13 DIANA 65 990 H1
33 1985 11 22 KATE 45 996 TS
34 1995 6 6 ALLISON 35 995 E
35 1996 10 8 JOSEPHINE 45 990 E
36 1996 10 8 JOSEPHINE 45 988 E
37 2001 6 13 ALLISON 25 1006 SD
38 2002 10 11 KYLE 35 1011 TS
39 2004 8 13 BONNIE 25 1008 TD
40 2004 8 14 CHARLEY 65 988 H1
Zoom to these records
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[senorpepr]

You may laugh, but I did a search just for kicks. (Look at my location <<< and you'll see why it was for kicks.)

Believe it or not, four came up within 100nm of Bellevue, Nebraska. (Of course three were tropical depressions and one was extratropical.)

1) Hurricane #1 of Sept 1900 (The TD remnants of the cat four "Galveston Hurricane)
2) Hurricane #2 of Sept 1920 (TD after hitting Louisiana as a cat two)
3) Hurricane #1 of June 1921 (TD after hitting Texas as a cat two)
4) Hurricane Alicia of Aug 1983 (The extratropical remnants of the cat three hurricane that his Texas)

[senorpepr]

Note to all... some of the storms that are listed are duplicates. For example, the list above with 40 storms -- if you look, there are really only 30 storms.