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Hurricane Eloise 1975

Category 3 hurricane · Atlantic · September 13 to September 24, 1975

Eloise has landfall records in 3 different places: the Dominican Republic, Quintana Roo and Florida. It came ashore in Florida as a Category 3 hurricane on September 23, 1975, with 125 mph winds. With a peak of 125 mph, it ranked the second-strongest of the 21 storms of the 1975 season. The name Eloise is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Eloise (1975) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N90°W80°W70°W60°WDominican Republic, 70 mphQuintana Roo, 50 mphFlorida, 125 mphPeak 125 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 300 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Eloise (1975) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 404080120160Sep 14Sep 16Sep 18Sep 20Sep 22Sep 24mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 495 miles northeast of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados
  2. Tropical storm 50 miles northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico
  3. Landfall Dominican Republic: tropical storm, 70 mph, 997 mb
  4. Landfall Quintana Roo: tropical storm, 50 mph, 1001 mb
  5. Landfall Quintana Roo: tropical storm, 50 mph, 1001 mb
  6. Hurricane 275 miles south-southeast of Houma, Louisiana
  7. Major hurricane 140 miles south of Pensacola, Florida
  8. Peak 35 miles south-southeast of Crestview, Florida; lowest pressure 950 mb
  9. Landfall Florida
  10. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 25 miles northwest of Kingsport, Tennessee
  11. Last record 25 miles northwest of Kingsport, Tennessee

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind125 mph · tied 180th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure950 mb · tied 175th of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy8.9 · 580th of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone10.8 days · tied 196th of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 1975 season

04080120160Eloise

Storm 12 of 21 in 1975, hurricane 5 of 7; it formed after Storm 11 of 1975 and before Faye. Eloise produced 12% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. 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
Cap-Haïtien, Nord, Haiti3 mi60 mphSeptember 17
Port-De-Paix, Nord-Ouest, Haiti5 mi50 mphSeptember 17
Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico7 mi50 mphSeptember 21
Fort-Liberté, Nord-Est, Haiti7 mi60 mphSeptember 17
Monte Cristi, the Dominican Republic8 mi60 mphSeptember 17
Nagua, María Trinidad Sánchez, the Dominican Republic8 mi70 mphSeptember 17
Mao, Valverde, the Dominican Republic9 mi60 mphSeptember 17
Santiago, the Dominican Republic9 mi60 mphSeptember 17

Every storm within 50 miles of Santiago, the Dominican Republic

Similar landfalls in Florida

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Florida came closest to Eloise's 125 mph:

  • Storm 11 of 1933125 mph, September 4, 1933
  • Storm 4 of 1896125 mph, September 29, 1896
  • Storm 3 of 1888125 mph, August 16, 1888
  • Storm 2 of 1882125 mph, September 10, 1882

All 229 storms with a landfall record in Florida

Also peaked at 125 mph

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

  • Irene (1971)948 mb, landfall in Nicaragua
  • Ella (1970)962 mb, landfall in Quintana Roo
  • Debbie (1969)950 mb, no landfall record
  • Elena (1985)953 mb, landfall in Mississippi