Hurricane Isidore
Sep 14, 2002 to Sep 27, 2002Peak 127 mph934 mb
Hurricane Isidore passed within 50 miles of 39 counties in 2 states. It was strongest near Plaquemines Parish, LA, as a tropical storm on September 26, 2002.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Hurricane Isidore · 2002
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
From space
Hurricane Isidore on September 25, 2002, about 13 hours before landfall in Lafourche Parish, LA.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- 127 mph, 110 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 934 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 39
- LA, MS
- Counties within 100 miles
- 71
- AL, AR, LA, MS
- Landfalls recorded
- 3
- Anywhere on the track
Every county it passed
Closest approach to each county boundary, with the storm’s strength at that moment.
| Plaquemines Parish | LA | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Washington Parish | LA | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Lafourche Parish | LA | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| St. Tammany Parish | LA | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson Parish | LA | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| St. Bernard Parish | LA | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Scott County | MS | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Rankin County | MS | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Simpson County | MS | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Marion County | MS | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson Davis County | MS | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Orleans Parish | LA | 0.4 | Tropical storm |
| Pearl River County | MS | 1.8 | Tropical storm |
| Walthall County | MS | 1.9 | Tropical storm |
| Smith County | MS | 4.3 | Tropical storm |
| Covington County | MS | 5.4 | Tropical storm |
| Terrebonne Parish | LA | 7.9 | Tropical storm |
| Lawrence County | MS | 8.4 | Tropical storm |
| Lamar County | MS | 10.8 | Tropical storm |
| St. Charles Parish | LA | 11.5 | Tropical storm |
| Hancock County | MS | 12.2 | Tropical storm |
| Copiah County | MS | 17.5 | Tropical storm |
| Tangipahoa Parish | LA | 18.8 | Tropical storm |
| St. John the Baptist Parish | LA | 19.0 | Tropical storm |
| Hinds County | MS | 20.7 | Tropical storm |
| Forrest County | MS | 22.6 | Tropical storm |
| Jones County | MS | 24.5 | Tropical storm |
| Pike County | MS | 25.2 | Tropical storm |
| Lincoln County | MS | 25.5 | Tropical storm |
| Stone County | MS | 31.8 | Tropical storm |
| Harrison County | MS | 31.8 | Tropical storm |
| Livingston Parish | LA | 35.3 | Tropical storm |
| St. James Parish | LA | 39.6 | Tropical storm |
| Perry County | MS | 40.6 | Tropical storm |
| Amite County | MS | 41.9 | Tropical storm |
| St. Helena Parish | LA | 42.0 | Tropical storm |
| Ascension Parish | LA | 45.8 | Tropical storm |
| Franklin County | MS | 47.9 | Tropical storm |
| Warren County | MS | 48.9 | Tropical storm |
| Wayne County | MS | 51.3 | Tropical storm |
| Assumption Parish | LA | 52.3 | Tropical storm |
| Claiborne County | MS | 52.8 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson County | MS | 54.1 | Tropical storm |
| St. Mary Parish | LA | 57.3 | Tropical storm |
| East Feliciana Parish | LA | 57.7 | Tropical storm |
| East Baton Rouge Parish | LA | 58.3 | Tropical storm |
| George County | MS | 58.3 | Tropical storm |
| Jackson County | MS | 58.3 | Tropical storm |
| Greene County | MS | 58.5 | Tropical storm |
| Issaquena County | MS | 59.8 | Tropical storm |
| St. Martin Parish | LA | 59.8 | Tropical storm |
| Sharkey County | MS | 60.2 | Tropical storm |
| Humphreys County | MS | 61.1 | Tropical storm |
| Madison Parish | LA | 63.9 | Tropical storm |
| Iberville Parish | LA | 67.9 | Tropical storm |
| Wilkinson County | MS | 72.0 | Tropical storm |
| Tensas Parish | LA | 72.2 | Tropical storm |
| Iberia Parish | LA | 74.9 | Tropical storm |
| West Baton Rouge Parish | LA | 75.1 | Tropical storm |
| East Carroll Parish | LA | 75.9 | Tropical storm |
| Adams County | MS | 78.6 | Tropical storm |
| West Feliciana Parish | LA | 78.8 | Tropical storm |
| Washington County | MS | 79.3 | Tropical storm |
| Washington County | AL | 80.0 | Tropical storm |
| Mobile County | AL | 83.9 | Tropical storm |
| Pointe Coupee Parish | LA | 85.9 | Tropical storm |
| Concordia Parish | LA | 91.9 | Tropical storm |
| Chicot County | AR | 96.4 | Tropical storm |
| Franklin Parish | LA | 97.1 | Tropical storm |
| West Carroll Parish | LA | 97.4 | Tropical storm |
| Richland Parish | LA | 98.4 | 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.