Tropical Storm Heidi
Sep 11, 1971 to Sep 15, 1971Peak 58 mph995 mb
Tropical Storm Heidi passed within 50 miles of 8 counties in ME. It was strongest near Nantucket County, MA, as a tropical storm on September 14, 1971.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Tropical Storm Heidi · 1971
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- 58 mph, 50 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 995 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 8
- ME
- Counties within 100 miles
- 20
- MA, ME, NH
- 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.
| Penobscot County | ME | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Hancock County | ME | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Waldo County | ME | 2.7 | Tropical storm |
| Knox County | ME | 10.0 | Tropical storm |
| Somerset County | ME | 22.3 | Tropical storm |
| Kennebec County | ME | 29.7 | Tropical storm |
| Lincoln County | ME | 30.4 | Tropical storm |
| Washington County | ME | 36.7 | Tropical storm |
| Sagadahoc County | ME | 51.1 | Tropical storm |
| Franklin County | ME | 55.7 | Tropical storm |
| Nantucket County | MA | 56.0 | Tropical storm |
| Barnstable County | MA | 58.7 | Tropical storm |
| Cumberland County | ME | 58.9 | Tropical storm |
| Androscoggin County | ME | 64.6 | Tropical storm |
| Oxford County | ME | 72.9 | Tropical storm |
| York County | ME | 81.2 | Tropical storm |
| Dukes County | MA | 81.8 | Tropical storm |
| Plymouth County | MA | 89.8 | Tropical storm |
| Essex County | MA | 92.7 | Tropical storm |
| Rockingham County | NH | 94.9 | 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.