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Hurricane Nate 2017

Category 1 hurricane · Atlantic · October 4 to October 8, 2017

Nate has landfall records in 3 different places: Nicaragua, Louisiana and Mississippi. It made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 1 hurricane on October 8, 2017, with 85 mph winds. With a peak of 90 mph, it ranked the ninth-strongest of the 18 storms of the 2017 season. The name Nate is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Nate (2017) from the best-track record, coloured by strength10°N20°N30°N40°N100°W90°W80°W70°W60°W50°WBirminghamNicaragua, 40 mphLouisiana, 85 mphMississippi, 75 mphPeak 90 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 100 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Nate (2017) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 304080120Oct 4Oct 5Oct 6Oct 7Oct 8Oct 9Oct 10Oct 11mph
  1. First record (low) 110 miles northwest of Colón, Panama
  2. Tropical storm 65 miles south-southeast of Bilwi, Atlántico Norte, Nicaragua
  3. Landfall Nicaragua: tropical storm, 40 mph, 999 mb
  4. Hurricane 160 miles north of Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico
  5. Peak 315 miles north of Tizimín, Yucatán, Mexico; lowest pressure 981 mb
  6. Landfall Louisiana
  7. Landfall Mississippi: Category 1, 75 mph, 984 mb
  8. No longer tropical (low) 45 miles east-northeast of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
  9. Last record 135 miles southeast of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind90 mph · tied 602nd of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure981 mb · tied 522nd of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy4.1 · 941st of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone4.2 days · tied 1056th of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 2017 season

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Storm 15 of 18 in 2017, hurricane 9 of 10; it formed after Maria and before Ophelia. Nate produced 2% 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
Tuscaloosa, Alabama2 mi35 mphOctober 8
Gulfport, Mississippi5 mi75 mphOctober 8
Biloxi, Mississippi5 mi75 mphOctober 8
Bilwi, Atlántico Norte, Nicaragua12 mi40 mphOctober 5
Birmingham, Alabama29 mi30 mphOctober 8
San Andrés, Colombia37 mi30 mphOctober 4
Mobile, Alabama41 mi65 mphOctober 8
Meridian, Mississippi42 mi40 mphOctober 8

Every storm within 50 miles of Birmingham, Alabama

Similar landfalls in Louisiana

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Louisiana came closest to Nate's 85 mph:

  • Flossy (1956)85 mph, September 24, 1956
  • Storm 4 of 190185 mph, August 14, 1901
  • Storm 2 of 189785 mph, September 13, 1897
  • Storm 13 of 188785 mph, October 19, 1887

All 98 storms with a landfall record in Louisiana

Also peaked at 90 mph

Of 81 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Leslie (2018)968 mb, no landfall record
  • Hanna (2020)973 mb, landfall in Texas
  • Isaias (2020)986 mb, landfall in Dominican Republic
  • Humberto (2013)979 mb, no landfall record