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Hurricane Marco

Aug 20, 2020 to Aug 25, 2020Peak 75 mph991 mb

Hurricane Marco came within 100 miles of 5 U.S. counties without passing within 50.

  • Major hurricane
  • Hurricane
  • Tropical storm
  • Post-tropical
Watch how it happened

Hurricane Marco · 2020

How it happened

Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.

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Date and time (UTC)—Historical replay — not a forecast
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From space

Hurricane Marco on August 24, 2020, about 5 hours before its closest pass to St. Bernard Parish, LA.

Hurricane Marco on August 24, 2020, about 5 hours before its closest pass to St. Bernard Parish, LA.
True-colour image from VIIRS, aboard the Suomi NPP satellite, on its early-afternoon pass, around 19:25 UTC. Imagery: NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System.

The storm

Peak strength
Category 1
75 mph, 65 kt
Lowest pressure
991 mb
Over the whole track
Counties within 50 miles
0
None
Counties within 100 miles
5
LA, MS
Strongest near the U.S.
Tropical storm
St. Bernard Parish, LA, 52.1 mi, Aug 25, 2020
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.

Counties within 100 miles
St. Bernard ParishLA52.1Tropical stormAug 25, 2020
St. Tammany ParishLA88.2Tropical stormAug 25, 2020
Hancock CountyMS88.8Tropical stormAug 25, 2020
Harrison CountyMS91.6Tropical stormAug 25, 2020
Jackson CountyMS98.3Tropical stormAug 25, 2020

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.