Hurricane Caroline (1975)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 24, 1975 to September 1, 1975

Peak strength

Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)

Lowest pressure

963 mb (28.44 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

5.4

Fastest the center moved

13 kt (15 mph)

Identifier

AL071975

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 174 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 11.93 inches (303 mm).

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

• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm AmyNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Storm60 kt · 981 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane BlancheNorth Atlantic · 1975Cat 175 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane DorisNorth Atlantic · 1975Cat 295 kt · 965 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane EloiseNorth Atlantic · 1975Cat 3110 kt · 955 mb
• Hurricane FayeNorth Atlantic · 1975Cat 290 kt · 977 mb
• Hurricane GladysNorth Atlantic · 1975Cat 4120 kt · 939 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm HallieNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Storm45 kt · 1002 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1975Tropical Storm60 kt · 985 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 Caroline