NHC AL081933 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Hurricane of 1933
August 22, 1933 – September 5, 1933
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.
- 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
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.