Tropical Storm Grace
Aug 30, 2003 to Sep 2, 2003Peak 40 mph1007 mb
Tropical Storm Grace passed within 50 miles of 5 counties in TX. It was strongest near Brazoria County, TX, as a tropical storm on August 31, 2003.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Tropical Storm Grace · 2003
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
From space
Tropical Storm Grace on August 30, 2003, about 18 hours before landfall in Brazoria County, TX.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- 40 mph, 35 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 1007 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 5
- TX
- Counties within 100 miles
- 12
- LA, 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.
| Brazoria County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Galveston County | TX | 3.8 | Tropical storm |
| Chambers County | TX | 20.1 | Tropical storm |
| Matagorda County | TX | 26.9 | Tropical storm |
| Wharton County | TX | 39.0 | Tropical storm |
| Jefferson County | TX | 52.1 | Tropical storm |
| Jackson County | TX | 73.1 | Tropical storm |
| Calhoun County | TX | 76.6 | Tropical storm |
| Orange County | TX | 80.5 | Tropical storm |
| Cameron Parish | LA | 81.3 | Tropical storm |
| Victoria County | TX | 95.5 | Tropical storm |
| Calcasieu Parish | LA | 99.5 | 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.