Hurricane Ginger
Sep 6, 1971 to Oct 6, 1971Peak 115 mph959 mb
Hurricane Ginger passed within 50 miles of 12 counties in NC. It was strongest near Hyde County, NC, as a tropical storm on September 30, 1971.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Hurricane Ginger · 1971
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- 115 mph, 100 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 959 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 12
- NC
- Counties within 100 miles
- 18
- NC, SC
- 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.
| Onslow County | NC | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Duplin County | NC | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Carteret County | NC | 0.2 | Tropical storm |
| Jones County | NC | 5.8 | Tropical storm |
| Pender County | NC | 8.2 | Tropical storm |
| Lenoir County | NC | 10.0 | Tropical storm |
| Craven County | NC | 10.3 | Tropical storm |
| Pamlico County | NC | 27.4 | Tropical storm |
| New Hanover County | NC | 32.5 | Tropical storm |
| Brunswick County | NC | 38.8 | Tropical storm |
| Columbus County | NC | 40.1 | Tropical storm |
| Beaufort County | NC | 40.9 | Tropical storm |
| Hyde County | NC | 53.9 | Tropical storm |
| Washington County | NC | 71.9 | Tropical storm |
| Dillon County | SC | 77.8 | Tropical storm |
| Horry County | SC | 77.8 | Tropical storm |
| Tyrrell County | NC | 80.0 | Tropical storm |
| Marion County | SC | 82.3 | 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.