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Hurricane Ida 2021

Category 4 hurricane · Atlantic · August 26 to September 1, 2021

Ida's 150 mph landfall in Louisiana on August 29, 2021 ranks tied for the strongest of the 98 storms with a landfall record there. Its winds climbed 70 mph in the 24 hours to August 29. With a peak of 150 mph, it ranked the second-strongest of the 21 storms of the 2021 season. The name Ida is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Ida (2021) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N40°N100°W90°W80°W70°W60°W50°WBaton RougeJacksonCuba, 80 mphLouisiana, 150 mphPeak 150 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 3Category 400 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Ida (2021) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 504080120160Aug 27Aug 28Aug 29Aug 30Aug 31Sep 1Sep 2Sep 3Sep 4mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 130 miles south-southwest of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica
  2. Tropical storm 115 miles west-southwest of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica
  3. Hurricane 30 miles south-southeast of Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba
  4. Landfall Cuba: Category 1, 80 mph, 987 mb
  5. Landfall Cuba: Category 1, 80 mph, 988 mb
  6. Major hurricane 185 miles southeast of Houma, Louisiana
  7. Peak 100 miles southeast of Houma, Louisiana; lowest pressure 929 mb
  8. Landfall Louisiana
  9. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 20 miles west-southwest of Beckley, West Virginia
  10. Last record 30 miles northwest of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind150 mph · tied 57th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure929 mb · tied 53rd of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy10.6 · 492nd of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone5.8 days · tied 733rd of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 2021 season

04080120160Ida

Storm 9 of 21 in 2021, hurricane 4 of 7; it formed after Henri and before Kate. Ida produced 7% 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
Florence, Alabama1 mi25 mphAugust 31
Tupelo, Mississippi2 mi30 mphAugust 31
Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba3 mi80 mphAugust 27
Houma, Louisiana12 mi125 mphAugust 29
Jackson, Mississippi13 mi40 mphAugust 30
Pinar del Rio, Cuba18 mi80 mphAugust 28
Baton Rouge, Louisiana22 mi80 mphAugust 30
Oak Ridge, Tennessee22 mi25 mphSeptember 1

Every storm within 50 miles of Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Similar landfalls in Louisiana

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Louisiana came closest to Ida's 150 mph:

All 98 storms with a landfall record in Louisiana

Also peaked at 150 mph

Of 27 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Laura (2020)937 mb, landfall in Antigua and Barbuda
  • Eta (2020)922 mb, landfall in Nicaragua
  • Franklin (2023)926 mb, landfall in Dominican Republic
  • Florence (2018)937 mb, landfall in North Carolina