Hurricane Edith (1971)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 5, 1971 to September 18, 1971

Peak strength

Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)

Lowest pressure

943 mb (27.85 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

16.4

Fastest the center moved

20 kt (23 mph)

Identifier

AL131971

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.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 1,111 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 8.66 inches (220 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Tropical Storm ArleneNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Storm55 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1971Cat 175 kt · 974 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane BethNorth Atlantic · 1971Cat 175 kt · 977 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm ChloeNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Storm55 kt · 1004 mb
• Tropical Storm DoriaNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Storm55 kt · 989 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane FernNorth Atlantic · 1971Cat 180 kt · 978 mb
• Hurricane GingerNorth Atlantic · 1971Cat 295 kt · 959 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm HeidiNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Storm55 kt · 996 mb
• Hurricane Irene:OliviaNorth Atlantic · 1971 · $1.0 millionCat 3100 kt · 948 mb
• Tropical Storm JaniceNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Storm55 kt · 1005 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm KristyNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Storm45 kt · 992 mb
• Tropical Storm LauraNorth Atlantic · 1971Tropical Storm60 kt · 994 mb

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Edith