Tropical Storm Felice
Sep 12, 1970 to Sep 19, 1970Peak 69 mph990 mb
Tropical Storm Felice passed within 50 miles of 18 counties in 2 states. It was strongest near Galveston County, TX, as a tropical storm on September 16, 1970.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Tropical Storm Felice · 1970
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- 69 mph, 60 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 990 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 18
- LA, TX
- Counties within 100 miles
- 42
- LA, TX
- Landfalls recorded
- 1
- Anywhere on the track
Every county it passed
Closest approach to each county boundary, with the storm’s strength at that moment.
| Montgomery County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Grimes County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Harris County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Galveston County | TX | 1.0 | Tropical storm |
| Chambers County | TX | 2.1 | Tropical storm |
| Waller County | TX | 3.4 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson County | TX | 9.8 | Tropical storm |
| Liberty County | TX | 12.8 | Tropical storm |
| Brazoria County | TX | 14.1 | Tropical storm |
| Austin County | TX | 17.0 | Tropical storm |
| Fort Bend County | TX | 18.4 | Tropical storm |
| Cameron Parish | LA | 28.7 | Tropical storm |
| San Jacinto County | TX | 32.9 | Tropical storm |
| Hardin County | TX | 36.6 | Tropical storm |
| Colorado County | TX | 37.4 | Tropical storm |
| Wharton County | TX | 38.4 | Tropical storm |
| Orange County | TX | 40.0 | Tropical storm |
| Vermilion Parish | LA | 48.7 | Tropical storm |
| Terrebonne Parish | LA | 51.1 | Tropical storm |
| Matagorda County | TX | 51.5 | Tropical storm |
| Polk County | TX | 53.2 | Tropical storm |
| Trinity County | TX | 53.4 | Tropical storm |
| Calcasieu Parish | LA | 54.6 | Tropical storm |
| Jasper County | TX | 56.2 | Tropical storm |
| Iberia Parish | LA | 58.2 | Tropical storm |
| Newton County | TX | 61.9 | Tropical storm |
| Tyler County | TX | 63.3 | Tropical storm |
| Lafourche Parish | LA | 66.1 | Tropical storm |
| St. Mary Parish | LA | 68.1 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson Davis Parish | LA | 69.2 | Tropical storm |
| Beauregard Parish | LA | 75.7 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson Parish | LA | 77.4 | Tropical storm |
| Plaquemines Parish | LA | 79.0 | Tropical storm |
| Jackson County | TX | 79.1 | Tropical storm |
| Acadia Parish | LA | 80.5 | Tropical storm |
| Assumption Parish | LA | 84.7 | Tropical storm |
| St. Martin Parish | LA | 87.4 | Tropical storm |
| Angelina County | TX | 89.9 | Tropical storm |
| Allen Parish | LA | 91.2 | Tropical storm |
| Lafayette Parish | LA | 91.3 | Tropical storm |
| Calhoun County | TX | 97.3 | Tropical storm |
| Victoria County | TX | 98.7 | Tropical storm |
Distances are measured from hourly positions interpolated between the National Hurricane Center’s six-hourly fixes to each county boundary. Strength is shown only where the storm was still tropical. Methodology.
National Hurricane Center HURDAT2. Storm totals cover the Atlantic and Northeast and Central Pacific basins.