NHC AL061960 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Ethel (1960)
September 12, 1960 – September 17, 1960
Hurricane Ethel peaked at Category 3 with 115 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 117 US cities, 37 of them while still at hurricane strength.
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- Cities within 75 mi
- 117
- At hurricane strength
- 37
- States
- 3
115 mph
when closest
Cities Ethel passed near, strongest first
Mississippi (62)
- DibervilleCategory 1 · 7 mi
- Ocean SpringsCategory 1 · 12 mi
- GautierCategory 1 · 18 mi
- PascagoulaCategory 1 · 23 mi
- Moss PointCategory 1 · 28 mi
- BiloxiCategory 1 · 5 mi
- Long BeachCategory 1 · 10 mi
- WavelandCategory 1 · 24 mi
- GulfportCategory 1 · 4 mi
- Bay St LouisCategory 1 · 25 mi
- Pass ChristianCategory 1 · 16 mi
- VancleaveCategory 1 · 18 mi
- DiamondheadTropical storm · 21 mi
- KilnTropical storm · 23 mi
- SaucierTropical storm · 1 mi
- CarriereTropical storm · 33 mi
- PicayuneTropical storm · 34 mi
- Mc HenryTropical storm · 4 mi
- PerkinstonTropical storm · overhead
- PoplarvilleTropical storm · 29 mi
- WigginsTropical storm · 8 mi
- LucedaleTropical storm · 27 mi
- LumbertonTropical storm · 27 mi
- Sandy HookTropical storm · 49 mi
- TylertownTropical storm · 65 mi
- BrooklynTropical storm · 4 mi
- PurvisTropical storm · 24 mi
- FoxworthTropical storm · 53 mi
- ColumbiaTropical storm · 47 mi
- BeaumontTropical storm · 5 mi
- LeakesvilleTropical storm · 24 mi
- HeidelbergTropical storm · 46 mi
- ShubutaTropical storm · 48 mi
- TaylorsvilleTropical storm · 49 mi
- Bay SpringsTropical storm · 56 mi
- MizeTropical storm · 57 mi
- QuitmanTropical storm · 62 mi
- MageeTropical storm · 63 mi
- LouinTropical storm · 64 mi
- RaleighTropical storm · 65 mi
- EnterpriseTropical storm · 68 mi
- MendenhallTropical storm · 71 mi
- HattiesburgTropical storm · 20 mi
- JayessTropical storm · 70 mi
- RichtonTropical storm · 7 mi
- PetalTropical storm · 15 mi
- SumrallTropical storm · 36 mi
- OvettTropical storm · 6 mi
- MoselleTropical storm · 20 mi
- State LineTropical storm · 26 mi
- BassfieldTropical storm · 45 mi
- MonticelloTropical storm · 68 mi
- SeminaryTropical storm · 30 mi
- PrentissTropical storm · 53 mi
- Silver CreekTropical storm · 62 mi
- EllisvilleTropical storm · 15 mi
- BuckatunnaTropical storm · 25 mi
- CollinsTropical storm · 36 mi
- LaurelTropical storm · 11 mi
- WaynesboroTropical storm · 17 mi
and 2 more
Alabama (29)
- Grand BayCategory 1 · 38 mi
- CodenCategory 1 · 42 mi
- IrvingtonCategory 1 · 42 mi
- TheodoreCategory 1 · 47 mi
- MobileCategory 1 · 52 mi
- FairhopeCategory 1 · 61 mi
- Gulf ShoresCategory 1 · 65 mi
- DaphneCategory 1 · 65 mi
- Spanish FortCategory 1 · 67 mi
- FoleyCategory 1 · 69 mi
- SilverhillCategory 1 · 69 mi
- SummerdaleCategory 1 · 70 mi
- LoxleyCategory 1 · 72 mi
- Orange BeachCategory 1 · 75 mi
- PrichardTropical storm · 58 mi
- SemmesTropical storm · 47 mi
- WhistlerTropical storm · 57 mi
- ChickasawTropical storm · 58 mi
- WilmerTropical storm · 42 mi
- Eight MileTropical storm · 53 mi
- SaralandTropical storm · 57 mi
- SatsumaTropical storm · 59 mi
- ChunchulaTropical storm · 50 mi
- CitronelleTropical storm · 44 mi
- Mount VernonTropical storm · 58 mi
- McintoshTropical storm · 54 mi
- ChatomTropical storm · 41 mi
- JacksonTropical storm · 63 mi
- MillryTropical storm · 35 mi
Louisiana (26)
- BurasCategory 1 · 49 mi
- Port SulphurCategory 1 · 64 mi
- Saint BernardCategory 1 · 61 mi
- VioletCategory 1 · 64 mi
- MerauxCategory 1 · 64 mi
- ChalmetteCategory 1 · 65 mi
- ArabiCategory 1 · 67 mi
- New OrleansCategory 1 · 69 mi
- GretnaCategory 1 · 71 mi
- Belle ChasseCategory 1 · 72 mi
- HarveyCategory 1 · 73 mi
- SlidellTropical storm · 45 mi
- Pearl RiverTropical storm · 42 mi
- BushTropical storm · 49 mi
- LacombeTropical storm · 53 mi
- Abita SpringsTropical storm · 54 mi
- MandevilleTropical storm · 60 mi
- CovingtonTropical storm · 60 mi
- FolsomTropical storm · 65 mi
- MadisonvilleTropical storm · 66 mi
- RobertTropical storm · 72 mi
- LorangerTropical storm · 75 mi
- BogalusaTropical storm · 47 mi
- FranklintonTropical storm · 62 mi
- Mount HermonTropical storm · 72 mi
- AngieTropical storm · 48 mi
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.