The 1975 season

Hurricane Carlotta (1975)

Hurricane Carlotta reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between July 2, 1975 and July 11, 1975.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Carlotta, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1975 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 2, 1975 to July 11, 1975
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 668 km (415 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
17.1
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP031975

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
Jul 2, 06:0010.8N 101.0WTropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0011.1N 102.5W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 2, 18:0011.5N 103.4W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0011.9N 104.3W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0012.3N 105.2W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0012.8N 106.1W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0013.2N 106.8W65 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 00:0013.6N 107.6W70 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 06:0014.2N 108.7W75 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 12:0014.7N 109.8W85 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 18:0015.3N 110.8W90 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 00:0015.8N 111.7W100 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 06:0016.3N 112.6W105 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 12:0016.7N 113.5W110 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 18:0017.1N 114.4W110 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 00:0017.3N 115.3W110 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 06:0017.4N 116.3W110 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 12:0017.4N 117.2W110 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 18:0017.4N 117.9W100 ktHurricane
Jul 7, 00:0017.4N 118.6W95 ktHurricane
Jul 7, 06:0017.4N 119.4W90 ktHurricane
Jul 7, 12:0017.4N 120.2W75 ktHurricane
Jul 7, 18:0017.4N 120.7W65 ktHurricane
Jul 8, 00:0017.4N 121.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:0017.4N 122.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:0017.5N 122.8W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0017.5N 123.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0017.5N 124.2W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0017.6N 125.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0017.9N 126.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0018.2N 126.6W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0018.4N 127.3W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 06:0018.6N 128.1W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 12:0018.8N 129.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 18:0018.9N 129.9W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 11, 00:0019.0N 130.9W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1975

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.