Hurricane Dawn (1972)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 5, 1972 to September 14, 1972

Peak strength

Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)

Lowest pressure

997 mb (29.44 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

6.6

Fastest the center moved

23 kt (26 mph)

Identifier

AL131972

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 114 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 1.19 inches (30 mm).

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

• Tropical Storm AlphaNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Storm60 kt · 991 mb
• Hurricane AgnesNorth Atlantic · 1972Cat 175 kt · 977 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane BettyNorth Atlantic · 1972Cat 290 kt · 976 mb
• Tropical Storm CarrieNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Storm60 kt · 992 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm CharlieNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Storm60 kt · 944 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm DeltaNorth Atlantic · 1972Tropical Storm40 kt · 1001 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.