Strongest United States tropical cyclone landfalls in each state (SDTWFC)

CONUS hurricane landfalls (1954-1975) — Continental United States hurricane landfalls from 1954-1975

CONUS hurricane landfalls (1979-1999) — Continental United States hurricane landfalls from 1976-1999

This is a list of the top 5 strongest landfalls, if applicable, to occur in every state along the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico coasts from the SDTWFC What Might Have Been series. The landfalls are ranked by wind speed rather than pressure.

Alabama[]

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Wallie	1969	Coden	120mph	959 mBar	Category 3
2	Barbara	1960	Gulf Highlands	115mph	967 mBar	Category 3
2	Winona	1979	Fort Morgan, Mobile	115mph	969 mBar	Category 3
3	Inez	1956	Dauphin Island	95mph	974 mBar	Category 2
4	Jacob	1981	Gulf Highlands, Alabama Port	85mph	986 mBar	Category 1
5	Alex	1994	Dauphin Island	75mph	991 mBar	Category 1

Connecticut[]

Connecticut has only had 4 landfalling storms since the series began in 1954.

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Florence	1954	Old Saybrook	120mph	957 mBar	Category 3
1	McKenna	1973	Guilford	120mph	962 mBar	Category 3
2	Donald	1977	Niantic	100mph	970 mBar	Category 2
3	Ana	1991	East Lyme	90mph	978 mBar	Category 1

Delaware[]

While no storms have made landfall along the Delaware shoreline in this series, several storms have passed over the state, including Edna in 1960 as well as Liam in 1995.

Florida[]

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Edna	1960	Palmetto Bay	175mph	908 mBar	Category 5
1	Heather	1999	Cocoa Beach	175mph	915 mBar	Category 5
2	Orpha	1978	Clearwater	170mph	912 mBar	Category 5
3	Hank	1969	Venice	165mph	909 mBar	Category 5
4	Stella	1967	Homestead	160mph	925 mBar	Category 5
5	Layten	1975	Pensacola Beach	155mph	922 mBar	Category 4

Georgia[]

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Joseph	1989	Brunswick	190mph	889 mBar	Category 6
2	Jill	1966	St. Catherine's Island	125mph	956 mBar	Category 3
3	Grayson	1963	Jekyll Island	70mph	989 mBar	Tropical Storm
4	Luis	1964	Cumberland Island	60mph	992 mBar	Tropical Storm
5	Bandit	1975	Sapelo Island	40mph	1004 mBar	Tropical Storm

Louisiana[]

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Michelle	1974	Chauvin	175mph	911 mBar	Category 5
2	Vinnie	1969	Grand Isle	150mph	940 mBar	Category 4
3	Cynthia	1961	Pilottown	145mph	936 mBar	Category 4
4	Ben	1957	Holly Beach	120mph	950 mBar	Category 3
5	Sage	1995	Chandeleur Islands	115mph	957 mBar	Category 3
5	Neil	1999	Port Fourchon	115mph	963 mBar	Category 3

Maine[]

Maine has only had 2 landfalling storms since the series began in 1954.

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Hazel	1954	Beals/Jonesport	85mph	977 mBar	Category 1
2	Eric	1987	Beals/Jonesport	75mph	986 mBar	Category 1

Maryland[]

Maryland has only had 4 landfalling storms since the series began in 1954.

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Liam	1995	Crisfield	120mph	960 mBar	Category 3
2	Nancy	1984	Assateague Island	105mph	967 mBar	Category 2
3	Edmund	1993	Nanticoke	75mph	988 mBar	Category 1
4	Patsy	1972	Smith Island, Frenchtown-Rumbly	35mph	1005 mBar	Tropical Depression

Massachusetts[]

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Hazel	1954	Cuttyhunk Island, North Falmouth	115mph	955 mBar	Category 3
2	Eric	1987	Edgartown, Hyannis	100mph	980 mBar	Category 2
3	Donald	1959	Cuttyhunk Island	80mph	990 mBar	Category 1
4	Gaston	1995	Nantucket	75mph	989 mBar	Category 1
5	Hank	1963	Dartmouth	40mph	997 mBar	Tropical Storm
5	Layten	1975	Tuckernuck Island, Monomy Island	40mph	999 mBar	Tropical Storm

Michigan[]

Brenda of the 1955 remained tropical as it crossed through Pennsylvania and Ontario, exiting into Lake Huron. Brenda, while still fully tropical, strengthened slightly, before making landfall on the Michigan thumb as a fully tropical storm. Just 2 hours after Brenda's first landfall, Brenda crossed over the Saginaw Bay, and made a second landfall while slightly weaker. Shortly after the second landfall, Brenda was absorbed into a large extra-tropcial system.

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Brenda	1955	White Rock	50mph	991 mBar	Tropical Storm
2	Brenda	1955	Au Gres	45mph	993 mbar	Tropical Storm

Mississippi[]

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Nathan	1970	Pascagoula	170mph	916 mBar	Category 5
2	Omar	1973	Pascagoula	120mph	963 mBar	Category 3
3	Sage	1995	Bay St. Louis	100mph	972 mBar	Category 2
4	Jacob	1981	Petit Bois Island	75mph	989 mBar	Category 1
5	Ana	1955	Bay St. Louis	50mph	998 mBar	Tropical Storm

New Hampshire[]

The only storm on record to make landfall in New Hampshire was North of 1995.

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	North	1995	Seabrook Beach	35mph	1007 mBar	Tropical Depression

New Jersey[]

New Jersey has only had 2 landfalling storms since the series began in 1954.

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Edna	1960	Port Norris	120mph	956 mBar	Category 3
2	Anya	1996	Cape May	60mph	993 mBar	Tropical Storm

New York[]

New York has only had 4 landfalling storms since the series began in 1954.

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Florence	1954	Sagaponack	120mph	956 mBar	Category 3
1	McKenna	1973	Southampton	120mph	960 mBar	Category 3
2	Donald	1977	Napeague	105mph	968 mBar	Category 2
3	Ana	1991	Napeague	90mph	977 mBar	Category 1

North Carolina[]

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Edna	1960	Moorehead City	180mph	904 mBar	Category 5
2	Liam	1995	Emerald Isle	160mph	920 mbar	Category 5
3	Edmund	1993	Hatteras	115mph	965 mBar	Category 3
4	Hilda	1955	Pine Knoll Shores	110mph	953 mBar	Category 2
	Edmund	1993	Engelhard	110mph	968 mBar	Category 2
	Candy	1995	Wilmington	110mph	967 mbar	Category 2
5	Erin	1999	Emerald Isle	105mph	964 mbar	Category 2

Rhode Island[]

Rhode Island has only had 3 landfalling storms since the series began in 1954.

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Dolly	1996	Newport	115mph	958 mBar	Category 3
2	Edith	1961	Weekapaug	40mph	1005 mBar	Tropical Storm
3	Edith	1967	Galilee	35mph	1007 mBar	Tropical Depression

South Carolina[]

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Norma	1954	Pawleys Island	145mph	940 mBar	Category 4
2	Kaleb	1959	Edisto Island	140mph	949 mBar	Category 4
3	Bianca	1998	Morris Island, Charleston	130mph	948 mBar	Category 4
4	Esther	1996	Baruch-North Island Reserver	120mph	949 mBar	Category 3
5	Patsy	1972	Isle of Palms	115mph	963 mBar	Category 3

Texas[]

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Linda	1973	Port Aransas	165mph	912 mBar	Category 5
1	Cesar	1999	South Padre Island	165mph	921 mBar	Category 5
2	George	1964	Caplen	155mph	915 mBar	Category 4
3	Melissa	1979	Smith Oaks Sanctuary	140mph	934 mBar	Category 4
4	Karl	1964	Sea Rim State Park	130mph	942 mBar	Category 4
5	Inez	1974	Galveston Island	120mph	954 mBar	Category 3

Virginia[]

Virginia has only had 4 landfalling storms since the series began in 1954.

Rank	Storm	Year	Landfall location	Wind speed at landfall	Pressure at landfall	Category at landfall
1	Edna	1960	Chincoteague	145mph	932 mBar	Category 4
3	Heather	1999	Tangier, Saxis	85mph	986 mBar	Category 1
3	Brenda	1955	Broadwater	80mph	988 mBar	Category 1
4	Edith	1967	Cape Charles	50mph	994 mBar	Tropical Storm

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