The 1976 season

Tropical Storm Georgia (1976)

Tropical Storm Georgia peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between September 8, 1976 and September 16, 1976, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Georgia. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 8, 1976 to September 16, 1976
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1333 km (828 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Identifier
WP181976

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 8, 00:006.4N 158.7E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:007.2N 158.3E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:007.9N 157.8E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:008.5N 157.2E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:009.1N 156.5E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:009.6N 155.5E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:009.9N 154.5E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0010.0N 153.6E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0010.1N 152.7E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0010.1N 152.0E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0010.1N 151.4E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0010.4N 150.7E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0010.9N 149.8E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0011.4N 148.8E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0011.9N 147.7E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0012.2N 146.8E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0012.4N 145.9E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0012.3N 144.7E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0012.4N 143.5E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0012.9N 142.7E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0013.5N 142.2E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0014.0N 141.9E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0014.5N 142.1E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0015.0N 143.5E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0015.5N 145.0E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0016.0N 145.5E25 kt994 mbMixed
Sep 14, 12:0016.5N 146.0E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0016.8N 146.7E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0017.0N 147.5E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0017.4N 148.7E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0018.0N 150.0E25 kt994 mbMixed
Sep 15, 18:0019.5N 151.0E25 kt996 mbMixed
Sep 16, 00:0021.9N 151.8E20 kt996 mbMixed
Sep 16, 06:0022.9N 152.7E996 mbMixed
Sep 16, 12:0024.5N 152.5EDisturbance

Other Western Pacific 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.