NHC AL021880 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1880
August 4, 1880 – August 14, 1880
Hurricane Unnamed 1880 storm peaked at Category 4 with 150 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 44 US cities, 36 of them while still at hurricane strength.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 44
- At hurricane strength
- 36
- States
- 1
150 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1880 storm passed near, strongest first
Texas (44)
- South Padre IslandCategory 4 · 14 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 4 · 9 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 4 · 6 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 4 · 5 mi
- OlmitoCategory 4 · 3 mi
- San BenitoCategory 3 · overhead
- Rio HondoCategory 3 · 12 mi
- HarlingenCategory 3 · 3 mi
- La FeriaCategory 3 · 3 mi
- LyfordCategory 3 · 15 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 3 · 4 mi
- MercedesCategory 3 · 4 mi
- ProgresoCategory 3 · 11 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 2 · 19 mi
- La VillaCategory 2 · 4 mi
- ElsaCategory 2 · 1 mi
- EdcouchCategory 2 · 5 mi
- DonnaCategory 2 · 9 mi
- AlamoCategory 2 · 10 mi
- WeslacoCategory 2 · 3 mi
- San JuanCategory 2 · 10 mi
- PharrCategory 2 · 10 mi
- HidalgoCategory 2 · 17 mi
- EdinburgCategory 2 · overhead
- McallenCategory 2 · 10 mi
- AltonCategory 1 · 2 mi
- MissionCategory 1 · 11 mi
- PenitasCategory 1 · 14 mi
- La JoyaCategory 1 · 16 mi
- Sullivan CityCategory 1 · 16 mi
- Rio Grande CityCategory 1 · 10 mi
- FalfurriasCategory 1 · 53 mi
- PremontCategory 1 · 63 mi
- RomaCategory 1 · 18 mi
- HebbronvilleCategory 1 · 31 mi
- San DiegoCategory 1 · 72 mi
- ZapataTropical storm · 2 mi
- LaredoTropical storm · 21 mi
- CotullaTropical storm · 74 mi
- Carrizo SpringsTropical storm · 50 mi
- Crystal CityTropical storm · 58 mi
- Eagle PassTropical storm · 29 mi
- BrackettvilleTropical storm · 50 mi
- Del RioTropical storm · 27 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.