Tropical Storm Elaine (1974)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 4, 1974 to September 14, 1974

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)

Lowest pressure

1001 mb (29.56 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 386 km (240 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

4.0

Fastest the center moved

27 kt (31 mph)

Identifier

AL131974

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Storm55 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Storm45 kt · 1006 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Storm50 kt · 992 mb
• Tropical Storm AlmaNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Storm55 kt · 1007 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane BeckyNorth Atlantic · 1974Cat 3100 kt · 977 mb
• Hurricane CarmenNorth Atlantic · 1974Cat 4130 kt · 928 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm DollyNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Storm45 kt · 1004 mb
• Hurricane Fifi:OrleneNorth Atlantic · 1974Cat 295 kt · 971 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane GertrudeNorth Atlantic · 1974Cat 165 kt · 999 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Storm45 kt · 1006 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1974Tropical Depression25 kt

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.