The 1976 season

Tropical Storm Nora (1976)

Tropical Storm Nora peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between December 1, 1976 and December 8, 1976, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Nora. 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
December 1, 1976 to December 8, 1976
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.8
Identifier
WP241976

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
Dec 1, 00:008.0N 133.4E25 ktTropical storm
Dec 1, 06:009.0N 132.9E25 ktTropical storm
Dec 1, 12:0010.0N 132.0E25 ktTropical storm
Dec 1, 18:0011.3N 130.3E25 ktTropical storm
Dec 2, 00:0012.1N 129.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 2, 06:0012.1N 128.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 2, 12:0012.2N 128.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 2, 18:0012.2N 127.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 3, 00:0012.3N 127.4E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 3, 06:0012.3N 127.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 3, 12:0012.4N 126.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 3, 18:0012.4N 126.6E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Dec 4, 00:0012.5N 126.3E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 4, 06:0012.5N 125.8E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 4, 12:0012.6N 125.3E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 4, 18:0012.5N 124.7E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 5, 00:0012.4N 124.1E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Dec 5, 06:0012.4N 123.8E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Dec 5, 12:0012.4N 123.6E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Dec 5, 18:0012.4N 123.3E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Dec 6, 00:0012.6N 123.0E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Dec 6, 06:0013.0N 122.9E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Dec 6, 12:0013.4N 123.0E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 6, 18:0013.8N 123.1E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 00:0014.2N 123.3E20 kt1000 mbMixed
Dec 7, 06:0014.4N 123.4E20 kt1004 mbMixed
Dec 7, 12:0014.6N 123.6E20 ktMixed
Dec 7, 18:0014.8N 123.8E20 ktTropical storm
Dec 8, 00:0015.1N 124.0E20 ktTropical storm

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.