Tropical Storm Fernanda (1976)
Tropical Storm Fernanda peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 27, 1976 and August 2, 1976.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Fernanda, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- July 27, 1976 to August 2, 1976
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 528 km (328 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.7
- Fastest the center moved
- 15 kt (17 mph)
- Identifier
- EP061976
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) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 18:00 | 12.4N 133.3W | Tropical storm | ||
| Jul 28, 00:00 | 12.2N 133.4W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 28, 06:00 | 12.3N 133.8W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 28, 12:00 | 12.3N 134.3W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 28, 18:00 | 12.3N 134.9W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 29, 00:00 | 12.2N 135.6W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 29, 06:00 | 12.1N 136.3W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 29, 12:00 | 12.1N 137.0W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 29, 18:00 | 12.3N 137.6W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 30, 00:00 | 12.5N 138.2W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 30, 06:00 | 12.8N 139.1W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 30, 12:00 | 13.1N 140.0W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 30, 18:00 | 13.2N 141.2W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 31, 00:00 | 13.3N 142.6W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 31, 06:00 | 13.4N 144.1W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 31, 12:00 | 13.5N 145.5W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 31, 18:00 | 13.6N 147.0W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Aug 1, 00:00 | 13.8N 148.4W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Aug 1, 06:00 | 13.8N 149.8W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Aug 1, 12:00 | 13.9N 151.1W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Aug 1, 18:00 | 14.0N 152.5W | 30 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Aug 2, 00:00 | 14.5N 153.9W | 30 kt | Tropical depression |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1976
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1976
- Hurricane AnnetteEastern Pacific · 1976
- Hurricane BonnyEastern Pacific · 1976
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1976
- Tropical Storm CelesteEastern Pacific · 1976
- Hurricane DianaEastern Pacific · 1976
- Tropical Storm EstelleEastern Pacific · 1976
- Tropical Storm GwenEastern Pacific · 1976
- Hurricane HyacinthEastern Pacific · 1976
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1976
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1976
- Hurricane IvaEastern Pacific · 1976
- Tropical Storm JoanneEastern Pacific · 1976
- Hurricane KathleenEastern Pacific · 1976
- Hurricane KateEastern Pacific · 1976
- Hurricane LizaEastern Pacific · 1976
- Hurricane MadelineEastern Pacific · 1976
- Tropical Storm NaomiEastern Pacific · 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.