All storm pages · 1996 Atlantic season
Hurricane Edouard 1996
Category 4 hurricane · Atlantic · August 19 to September 3, 1996
Edouard held major-hurricane strength (Category 3 or higher) for 186 hours, tied for the eighth-longest spell among Atlantic hurricanes. No other storm of the 1996 Atlantic season matched its 145 mph peak; the season had 13 storms. It generated 30% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 1996 storm.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) far out at sea, at 12.4°N, 19.9°W
- Tropical storm far out at sea, at 13.2°N, 31.6°W
- Hurricane far out at sea, at 13.9°N, 38.3°W
- Major hurricane 935 miles northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname
- Peak 860 miles east-northeast of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados; lowest pressure 933 mb
- No longer tropical (extratropical low) 210 miles southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Last record 760 miles east-northeast of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Against every Atlantic storm since 1851
More from the record
Its winds climbed 60 mph in the 24 hours to August 25.
In the 1996 season
Storm 5 of 13 in 1996, hurricane 4 of 9; it formed after Dolly and before Fran. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: New Bedford, Massachusetts, 149 miles from the center on September 2 (Category 1 hurricane stage).
Also peaked at 145 mph
Of 24 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:
- Bret (1999)944 mb, landfall in Texas
- Iris (2001)948 mb, landfall in Belize
- Lili (2002)938 mb, landfall in Cayman Islands
- Gabrielle (1989)935 mb, no landfall record