The 1966 season

Tropical Storm Greta (1966)

Tropical Storm Greta peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between September 1, 1966 and September 7, 1966, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Greta, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1966 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 1, 1966 to September 7, 1966
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 468 km (291 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
AL071966

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 1, 12:0013.7N 48.4W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:0014.3N 49.6W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 00:0014.9N 50.6W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 06:0015.5N 51.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 12:0016.0N 52.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 18:0016.2N 52.9W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 3, 00:0016.4N 53.7W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 06:0016.5N 54.3W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 12:0016.5N 55.0W30 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 18:0016.8N 55.8W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 4, 00:0017.3N 56.7W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 4, 06:0018.0N 57.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0018.8N 58.0W40 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0019.8N 59.0W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0020.6N 60.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0021.0N 60.9W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0021.3N 61.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0021.8N 62.6W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0022.2N 63.7W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0022.9N 65.1W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 12:0023.7N 66.7W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 18:0024.6N 68.2W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 00:0025.6N 69.7W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 7, 06:0026.1N 70.6W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 7, 12:0026.7N 71.5W20 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 18:0027.5N 72.3W20 kt1014 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1966

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.