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Hurricane Audrey 1957

Category 3 hurricane · Atlantic · June 24 to June 28, 1957

Audrey came ashore in Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on June 27, 1957, with 125 mph winds. With a peak of 125 mph, it ranked the second-strongest of the 8 storms of the 1957 season. It produced 10% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. The name Audrey is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Audrey (1957) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N25°N30°N35°N40°N100°W95°W90°W85°W80°W75°WNashvilleLouisiana, 125 mphPeak 125 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 300 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Audrey (1957) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 404080120160Jun 25Jun 26Jun 27Jun 28Jun 29mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 170 miles north of Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico
  2. Tropical storm 185 miles north of Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico
  3. Hurricane 260 miles west-northwest of Progreso, Yucatán, Mexico
  4. Major hurricane 110 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas
  5. Peak 40 miles south of Port Arthur, Texas; lowest pressure 946 mb
  6. Landfall Louisiana
  7. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 30 miles west-northwest of Clarksburg, West Virginia
  8. Last record 30 miles west-northwest of Clarksburg, West Virginia

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind125 mph · tied 180th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure946 mb · tied 152nd of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy8.1 · tied 619th of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone4.2 days · tied 1056th of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 1957 season

04080120160Audrey

Storm 2 of 8 in 1957, hurricane 1 of 3; it formed after Storm 1 of 1957 and before Bertha. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of at least 8 towns or cities of 10,000 people or more while the system was tropical. Distances are to the interpolated track line, not the storm's edge.

PlaceClosestWind thenDate
Greenville, Mississippi1 mi45 mphJune 28
Monroe, Louisiana2 mi60 mphJune 28
Nashville, Tennessee5 mi40 mphJune 28
Port Arthur, Texas15 mi125 mphJune 27
Columbia, Tennessee17 mi40 mphJune 28
Lake Charles, Louisiana22 mi105 mphJune 27
Murfreesboro, Tennessee26 mi40 mphJune 28
Beaumont, Texas28 mi115 mphJune 27

Every storm within 50 miles of Nashville, Tennessee

Similar landfalls in Louisiana

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Louisiana came closest to Audrey's 125 mph:

  • Katrina (2005)125 mph, August 29, 2005
  • Storm 6 of 1915125 mph, September 29, 1915
  • Storm 4 of 1879125 mph, September 1, 1879
  • Storm 1 of 1860125 mph, August 11, 1860

All 98 storms with a landfall record in Louisiana

Also peaked at 125 mph

Of 40 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Edna (1954)943 mb, landfall in Massachusetts
  • Able (1950)953 mb, landfall in Nova Scotia
  • Storm 4 of 1949974 mb, no landfall record
  • Storm 9 of 1948971 mb, landfall in Cuba