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Hurricane Edna 1954

Category 3 hurricane · Atlantic · September 5 to September 11, 1954

No storm in the record came ashore in Massachusetts with stronger winds than Edna's 110 mph landfall on September 11, 1954; 11 storms have a landfall record there. With a peak of 125 mph, it ranked the second-strongest of the 16 storms of the 1954 season. It produced 17% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. The name Edna is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Edna (1954) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N40°N50°N60°N90°W80°W70°W60°W50°W40°W30°WMassachusetts, 110 mphPeak 125 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 300 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Edna (1954) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 404080120160Sep 6Sep 7Sep 8Sep 9Sep 10Sep 11Sep 12Sep 13Sep 14mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 110 miles north-northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  2. Tropical storm 145 miles north of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
  3. Hurricane 205 miles north of Port-De-Paix, Nord-Ouest, Haiti
  4. Major hurricane 180 miles east-northeast of Freeport, the Bahamas
  5. Peak 205 miles northeast of Freeport, the Bahamas; lowest pressure 943 mb
  6. Landfall Massachusetts
  7. Landfall Massachusetts: Category 2, 110 mph, 952 mb
  8. Landfall Massachusetts: Category 2, 105 mph, 954 mb
  9. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 75 miles south-southeast of Bangor, Maine
  10. Last record 785 miles north-northeast of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind125 mph · tied 180th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure943 mb · tied 134th of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy18.9 · 262nd of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone6.8 days · 594th of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 1954 season

04080120160Edna

Storm 8 of 16 in 1954, hurricane 4 of 7; it formed after Dolly and before Storm 9 of 1954. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of 2 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
New Bedford, Massachusetts28 mi110 mphSeptember 11
Newport, Rhode Island40 mi110 mphSeptember 11

Every storm within 50 miles of New Bedford, Massachusetts

Similar landfalls in Massachusetts

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Massachusetts came closest to Edna's 110 mph:

  • Storm 10 of 1869105 mph, October 4, 1869
  • Storm 2 of 189680 mph, September 10, 1896
  • Storm 6 of 188880 mph, September 26, 1888
  • Storm 2 of 187980 mph, August 19, 1879

All 11 storms with a landfall record in Massachusetts

Also peaked at 125 mph

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

  • Audrey (1957)946 mb, landfall in Louisiana
  • Able (1950)953 mb, landfall in Nova Scotia
  • Storm 4 of 1949974 mb, no landfall record
  • Storm 9 of 1948971 mb, landfall in Cuba