Tropical Storm Charley
Aug 21, 1998 to Aug 24, 1998Peak 69 mph1000 mb
Tropical Storm Charley passed within 50 miles of 7 counties in TX. It was strongest near Cameron County, TX, as a tropical storm on August 22, 1998.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Tropical Storm Charley · 1998
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- 69 mph, 60 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 1000 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 7
- TX
- Counties within 100 miles
- 15
- 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.
| Nueces County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| San Patricio County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Aransas County | TX | 4.2 | Tropical storm |
| Kleberg County | TX | 17.2 | Tropical storm |
| Calhoun County | TX | 23.5 | Tropical storm |
| Kenedy County | TX | 39.1 | Tropical storm |
| Victoria County | TX | 45.8 | Tropical storm |
| Brooks County | TX | 56.6 | Tropical storm |
| Matagorda County | TX | 57.3 | Tropical storm |
| Jackson County | TX | 69.0 | Tropical storm |
| Willacy County | TX | 78.0 | Tropical storm |
| Hidalgo County | TX | 85.3 | Tropical storm |
| Cameron County | TX | 87.4 | Tropical storm |
| Wharton County | TX | 93.7 | Tropical storm |
| Starr County | TX | 95.5 | 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.