Tropical Storm Elena
Aug 30, 1979 to Sep 2, 1979Peak 40 mph1004 mb
Tropical Storm Elena came within 100 miles of 6 U.S. counties without passing within 50.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Tropical Storm Elena · 1979
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- 40 mph, 35 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 1004 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 0
- None
- Counties within 100 miles
- 6
- TX
- 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.
| Refugio County | TX | 58.8 | Tropical storm |
| Aransas County | TX | 61.5 | Tropical storm |
| Goliad County | TX | 82.1 | Tropical storm |
| Nueces County | TX | 87.6 | Tropical storm |
| San Patricio County | TX | 91.3 | Tropical storm |
| Bee County | TX | 96.0 | 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.