Tabasco, Mexico: storm history

51 storms have passed within 50 km of Tabasco from 1857 to 2024. The map shows Mexico; search for a town in Tabasco to see storms near it.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

Storms near Tabasco

The record holds 51 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Tabasco, Mexico between 1857 and 2024. The busiest month is October, with 12 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 1 strength. 8 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 51storms within 50 km
  • 0major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 4at category 1 strength or more

A storm counts once, however many times it came close. The category is the storm's strongest point within 50 km, which can be weaker than its peak elsewhere.

How strong were the storms near Tabasco?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1835%
Tropical storm2141%
Category 148%
Category 200%
Category 300%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity816%

The agency behind most of the intensity figures here is the NOAA National Hurricane Center (HURDAT2, Atlantic).

Tabasco storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 7 in 2010s.1850s1870s1890s1910s1930s1960s1990s2010s

The 2020s only run to 2024, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1857, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

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PeriodCount
1850s1
1860s3
1870s2
1880s1
1890s4
1900s2
1910s2
1920s2
1930s6
1940s5
1960s3
1970s4
1990s1
2000s4
2010s7
2020s4

Earlier decades hold fewer storms partly because they were harder to see. Before weather satellites (about the 1960s) many storms that stayed at sea went unrecorded, so compare decades with care.

Storms by month
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 12 in Oct.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May2Jun5Jul8Aug10Sep11Oct12Nov3Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May2
Jun5
Jul8
Aug10
Sep11
Oct12
Nov3
Dec0

Strongest storms near Tabasco

  • Brenda (1973)18 August 1973 to 22 August 1973, peak Category 1 (80 kt), 977 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of October 1892 (North Atlantic)5 October 1892 to 16 October 1892, Category 1 (75 kt) near here, peak Category 2 (85 kt)
  • Unnamed storm of October 1922 (North Atlantic)11 October 1922 to 22 October 1922, Category 1 (70 kt) near here, peak Category 2 (95 kt)
  • Unnamed storm of September 1944 (North Atlantic)19 September 1944 to 22 September 1944, peak Category 1 (70 kt)
  • Unnamed storm of July 1893 (North Atlantic)4 July 1893 to 9 July 1893, Tropical storm (60 kt) near here, peak Category 2 (85 kt)

Most recent storms near Tabasco

  • Nadine (2024)18 October 2024 to 20 October 2024, Tropical depression (30 kt) near here, peak Tropical storm (45 kt), 1,003 hPa
  • Lisa (2022)30 October 2022 to 5 November 2022, Tropical storm (45 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (75 kt), 988 hPa
  • Karl (2022)11 October 2022 to 15 October 2022, peak Tropical storm (50 kt), 997 hPa

Many of these storms killed people and destroyed homes. The figures are the official record's, and this page says nothing about their human cost.

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