All storm pages · 1967 Atlantic season
Hurricane Beulah 1967
Category 5 hurricane · Atlantic · September 5 to September 24, 1967
Beulah's 125 mph landfall in Tamaulipas on September 20, 1967 ranks tied for the second-strongest of the 26 storms with a landfall record there. It reached Category 5 with 160 mph winds, one of 44 Atlantic storms to do so since 1851. It has landfall records in 3 different places: Saint Lucia, Quintana Roo and Tamaulipas. The name Beulah is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 175 miles east of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados
- Tropical storm 15 miles east-southeast of Castries, Saint Lucia
- Landfall Saint Lucia: tropical storm, 40 mph
- Hurricane 105 miles west-southwest of Roseau, Saint George, Dominica
- Major hurricane 140 miles south-southwest of Christiansted, the US Virgin Islands
- Landfall Quintana Roo: Category 3, 125 mph, 954 mb
- Landfall Quintana Roo: Category 3, 125 mph
- Peak 125 miles east-southeast of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico; lowest pressure 923 mb
- Landfall Tamaulipas
- Last record (tropical depression) 45 miles east of Tuxpam, Veracruz, Mexico
Against every Atlantic storm since 1851
More from the record
No other storm of the 1967 Atlantic season matched its 160 mph peak; the season had 17 storms.
It generated 33% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 1967 storm.
In the 1967 season
Storm 7 of 17 in 1967, hurricane 2 of 6; it formed after Chloe and before Doria. 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.
| Place | Closest | Wind then | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 1 mi | 125 mph | September 17 |
| Progreso, Yucatán, Mexico | 2 mi | 75 mph | September 17 |
| Castries, Saint Lucia | 6 mi | 40 mph | September 7 |
| Pánuco, Veracruz, Mexico | 7 mi | 30 mph | September 23 |
| Motul, Yucatán, Mexico | 7 mi | 75 mph | September 17 |
| Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, Mexico | 8 mi | 25 mph | September 23 |
| Montemorelos, Nuevo León, Mexico | 8 mi | 35 mph | September 22 |
| Harlingen, Texas | 9 mi | 110 mph | September 20 |
Similar landfalls in Quintana Roo
Storms whose strongest landfall record in Quintana Roo came closest to Beulah's 125 mph:
- Emily (2005)130 mph, July 18, 2005
- Hilda (1955)120 mph, September 16, 1955
- Charlie (1951)130 mph, August 20, 1951
- Roxanne (1995)115 mph, October 11, 1995
Also peaked at 160 mph
Of 16 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:
- Inez (1966)927 mb, landfall in Guadeloupe
- Esther (1961)919 mb, landfall in Massachusetts
- Carol (1953)929 mb, landfall in Nova Scotia
- Hugo (1989)918 mb, landfall in Guadeloupe