The 1976 season

Tropical Storm Anna (1976)

Tropical Storm Anna peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between July 28, 1976 and August 6, 1976, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Anna, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1976 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
July 28, 1976 to August 6, 1976
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 918 km (570 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Fastest the center moved
35 kt (40 mph)
Identifier
AL061976

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 28, 18:0028.0N 52.3W20 kt1015 mbSubtropical depression
Jul 29, 00:0028.0N 51.3W20 ktSubtropical depression
Jul 29, 06:0028.0N 50.3W20 ktSubtropical depression
Jul 29, 12:0028.0N 49.3W25 kt1012 mbSubtropical depression
Jul 29, 18:0028.0N 48.1W25 kt1009 mbSubtropical depression
Jul 30, 00:0028.3N 45.6W30 kt1005 mbSubtropical depression
Jul 30, 06:0029.8N 42.0W35 kt999 mbSubtropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0030.1N 39.9W40 ktSubtropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0030.5N 37.7W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0031.3N 35.7W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0031.9N 33.6W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0032.5N 31.5W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0033.2N 29.4W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0033.9N 27.1W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0035.0N 24.9W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0036.3N 23.2W35 ktExtratropical
Aug 1, 18:0037.8N 21.8W35 ktExtratropical
Aug 2, 00:0039.2N 20.9W35 ktExtratropical
Aug 2, 06:0040.6N 20.3W40 ktExtratropical
Aug 2, 12:0042.1N 20.5W45 ktExtratropical
Aug 2, 18:0042.7N 21.0W40 kt1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 00:0042.8N 21.9W35 ktExtratropical
Aug 3, 06:0042.7N 22.8W35 ktExtratropical
Aug 3, 12:0042.5N 23.7W30 kt1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 18:0041.9N 24.9W30 ktExtratropical
Aug 4, 00:0041.2N 25.9W30 ktExtratropical
Aug 4, 06:0040.4N 26.7W30 ktExtratropical
Aug 4, 12:0039.5N 27.5W30 kt1008 mbExtratropical
Aug 4, 18:0038.5N 28.1W30 ktExtratropical
Aug 5, 00:0038.0N 28.1W30 ktExtratropical
Aug 5, 06:0037.5N 27.7W30 ktExtratropical
Aug 5, 12:0037.4N 27.3W25 kt1012 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 18:0037.4N 26.7W25 ktExtratropical
Aug 6, 00:0037.5N 26.3W25 ktExtratropical
Aug 6, 06:0037.6N 25.6W25 ktExtratropical
Aug 6, 12:0037.9N 25.1W25 kt1015 mbExtratropical
Aug 6, 18:0038.2N 24.6W25 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 1976

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.