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NHC AL081999 · Atlantic basin

Hurricane Floyd (1999)

September 7, 1999 – September 19, 1999

Hurricane Floyd peaked at Category 4 with 155 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 2,009 US cities, 206 of them while still at hurricane strength.

Peak strength
Category 4

155 mph

Cities within 75 mi
2,009
At hurricane strength
206

when closest

States
14

Cities Floyd passed near, strongest first

New Jersey (446)

and 386 more

New York (326)

and 266 more

Massachusetts (315)

and 255 more

Connecticut (186)

and 126 more

North Carolina (152)

and 92 more

Maine (151)

and 91 more

New Hampshire (129)

and 69 more

Pennsylvania (95)

and 35 more

Virginia (57)

Rhode Island (49)

Maryland (42)

Delaware (36)

South Carolina (17)

Vermont (8)

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.