Tropical Storm Fay
Sep 5, 2002 to Sep 11, 2002Peak 58 mph998 mb
Tropical Storm Fay passed within 50 miles of 7 counties in TX. It was strongest near Matagorda County, TX, as a tropical storm on September 7, 2002.
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- Hurricane
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- Post-tropical
Tropical Storm Fay · 2002
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
From space
Tropical Storm Fay on September 6, 2002, about 13 hours before landfall in Matagorda County, TX.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- 58 mph, 50 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 998 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 7
- TX
- Counties within 100 miles
- 10
- 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.
| Jackson County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Calhoun County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Matagorda County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Victoria County | TX | 2.4 | Tropical storm |
| Refugio County | TX | 24.6 | Tropical storm |
| Aransas County | TX | 31.7 | Tropical storm |
| Brazoria County | TX | 43.9 | Tropical storm |
| Fort Bend County | TX | 54.2 | Tropical storm |
| Nueces County | TX | 62.6 | Tropical storm |
| Galveston County | TX | 73.3 | 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.