The 1975 season

Hurricane Faye (1975)

Hurricane Faye reached Category 2 in the North Atlantic between September 18, 1975 and September 29, 1975, with a lowest pressure of 977 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Faye, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
September 18, 1975 to September 29, 1975
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
977 mb (28.85 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 487 km (303 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.8
Fastest the center moved
44 kt (51 mph)
Identifier
AL141975

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
Sep 18, 06:0017.5N 33.5W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 12:0017.8N 34.4W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 18:0018.3N 35.3W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 00:0019.0N 36.4W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 06:0019.6N 37.6W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 12:0020.0N 39.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0020.4N 40.2W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0020.5N 41.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0020.5N 42.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0020.3N 44.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0020.2N 45.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0020.3N 46.2W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0020.3N 47.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0020.3N 47.8W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0020.4N 48.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0020.5N 49.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0020.5N 50.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0020.4N 50.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0020.4N 51.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0020.4N 52.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0020.3N 53.4W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0020.4N 54.6W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 23, 18:0020.6N 55.8W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 00:0020.8N 56.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 06:0021.5N 57.1W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 12:0022.4N 57.0W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 18:0023.0N 56.9W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 00:0023.8N 57.2W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 06:0024.2N 58.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0024.8N 58.8W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0025.5N 59.4W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0026.5N 60.0W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 06:0027.9N 60.9W70 kt988 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 12:0029.6N 62.0W75 kt985 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 18:0031.0N 63.1W85 kt985 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 00:0032.7N 64.2W90 kt985 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 06:0034.4N 65.2W90 kt979 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 12:0036.1N 65.7W90 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 18:0037.4N 65.0W90 kt985 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 00:0038.4N 63.7W85 kt985 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 06:0039.8N 60.5W80 kt985 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 12:0041.0N 57.1W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 18:0042.3N 52.0W75 kt977 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 00:0042.8N 46.0W70 kt977 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 06:0042.9N 40.0W65 kt977 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 12:0043.0N 34.0W60 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic 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.