Hurricane Kate (1976)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

September 21, 1976 to October 2, 1976

Peak strength

Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)

Landfall

No; closest approach 402 km (250 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

13.4

Fastest the center moved

10 kt (12 mph)

Identifier

CP011976

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane AnnetteEastern Pacific · 1976Cat 4120 kt · 925 mb
• Hurricane BonnyEastern Pacific · 1976Cat 165 kt · 987 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm CelesteEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane DianaEastern Pacific · 1976Cat 285 kt
• Tropical Storm EstelleEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Storm35 kt
• Tropical Storm FernandaEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Storm35 kt
• Tropical Storm GwenEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Storm55 kt
• Hurricane HyacinthEastern Pacific · 1976Cat 3100 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane IvaEastern Pacific · 1976Cat 4115 kt
• Tropical Storm JoanneEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane KathleenEastern Pacific · 1976Cat 170 kt · 986 mb
• Hurricane LizaEastern Pacific · 1976Cat 4120 kt · 948 mb
• Hurricane MadelineEastern Pacific · 1976Cat 4125 kt · 941 mb
• Tropical Storm NaomiEastern Pacific · 1976Tropical Storm45 kt · 1005 mb

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.

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.