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Storm 4 of 1928 1928

Category 5 hurricane · Atlantic · September 6 to September 19, 1928

Storm 4 of 1928 reached Category 5 with 160 mph winds, one of 44 Atlantic storms to do so since 1851. No other storm of the 1928 Atlantic season matched the storm's 160 mph peak; the season had 6 storms. The storm generated 57% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 1928 storm.

Track of Storm 4 of 1928 from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N40°N80°W70°W60°W50°W40°W30°W20°WJacksonvilleFlorida, 145 mphSouth Carolina, 85 mphPeak 160 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 3Category 4Category 500 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Storm 4 of 1928 over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 504080120160200Sep 7Sep 9Sep 11Sep 13Sep 15Sep 17Sep 19Sep 21mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) far out at sea, at 14.2°N, 17.0°W
  2. Tropical storm far out at sea, at 14.0°N, 20.0°W
  3. Hurricane 710 miles east-northeast of Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados
  4. Major hurricane 175 miles east-northeast of Fort-de-France, Martinique, France
  5. Peak 20 miles south of Christiansted, the US Virgin Islands; lowest pressure 929 mb
  6. Landfall Florida
  7. Landfall South Carolina: Category 1, 85 mph, 977 mb
  8. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 15 miles north-northwest of Greenville, North Carolina
  9. Last record 60 miles south-southeast of North Bay, Ontario, Canada

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind160 mph · tied 28th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure929 mb · tied 53rd of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy47.8 · 20th of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone13.2 days · tied 86th of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

More from the record

The storm came ashore in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on September 17, 1928, with 145 mph winds.

In the 1928 season

04080120160200this storm

Storm 4 of 6 in 1928, hurricane 3 of 4; it formed after Storm 3 of 1928 and before Storm 5 of 1928. 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
West Palm Beach, Florida1 mi140 mphSeptember 17
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France2 mi140 mphSeptember 12
Charleston, South Carolina3 mi80 mphSeptember 18
Nassau, the Bahamas4 mi155 mphSeptember 16
Ocala, Florida5 mi80 mphSeptember 17
Jacksonville, Florida6 mi75 mphSeptember 18
Arecibo, Puerto Rico7 mi145 mphSeptember 13
Beaufort, South Carolina11 mi85 mphSeptember 18

Every storm within 50 miles of West Palm Beach, Florida

Similar landfalls in Florida

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Florida came closest to this one's 145 mph:

All 229 storms with a landfall record in Florida

Also peaked at 160 mph

Of 16 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Storm 4 of 1932no pressure recorded, no landfall record
  • Storm 8 of 1933940 mb, landfall in Texas
  • Storm 14 of 1933929 mb, no landfall record
  • Storm 6 of 1938940 mb, landfall in New York