The 1975 season

Tropical Storm Priscilla (1975)

Tropical Storm Priscilla peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between November 2, 1975 and November 7, 1975.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Priscilla, 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
November 2, 1975 to November 7, 1975
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 382 km (237 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP161975

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
Nov 2, 00:0011.5N 97.0W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 2, 06:0011.5N 97.0W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 2, 12:0011.5N 97.0W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 2, 18:0011.9N 97.0W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 3, 00:0012.2N 97.0W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 3, 06:0012.3N 98.1W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 3, 12:0012.5N 99.5W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 3, 18:0012.7N 100.0W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 4, 00:0012.9N 100.6W30 ktTropical depression
Nov 4, 06:0013.1N 101.5W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 4, 12:0013.4N 102.5W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 4, 18:0013.9N 103.3W35 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 00:0014.5N 104.2W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 06:0015.0N 105.6W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:0015.4N 107.2W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:0015.5N 108.8W50 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 00:0015.6N 110.3W55 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 06:0016.0N 111.7W55 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:0016.3N 112.7W55 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:0016.6N 113.3W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:0017.0N 113.7W45 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0017.3N 114.1W35 ktExtratropical
Nov 7, 12:0017.5N 114.5W25 ktExtratropical

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.