Hurricane Amy
Jun 27, 1975 to Jul 4, 1975Peak 81 mph981 mb
Hurricane Amy passed within 50 miles of 3 counties in NC. It was strongest near Hyde County, NC, as a tropical storm on June 29, 1975.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Hurricane Amy · 1975
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- 81 mph, 70 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 981 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 3
- NC
- Counties within 100 miles
- 14
- NC
- Landfalls recorded
- 0
- Anywhere on the track
Every county it passed
Closest approach to each county boundary, with the storm’s strength at that moment.
| Carteret County | NC | 34.8 | Tropical storm |
| Onslow County | NC | 41.5 | Tropical storm |
| Pender County | NC | 42.5 | Tropical storm |
| Craven County | NC | 54.3 | Tropical storm |
| Jones County | NC | 54.8 | Tropical storm |
| Hyde County | NC | 61.4 | Tropical storm |
| Duplin County | NC | 63.1 | Tropical storm |
| Pamlico County | NC | 63.1 | Tropical storm |
| Dare County | NC | 69.2 | Tropical storm |
| Beaufort County | NC | 79.5 | Tropical storm |
| Lenoir County | NC | 81.1 | Tropical storm |
| Pitt County | NC | 93.9 | Tropical storm |
| Wayne County | NC | 94.1 | Tropical storm |
| Tyrrell County | NC | 99.4 | 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.