The 1976 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1976)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the North Atlantic between July 20, 1976 and July 22, 1976.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical depression. 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
North Atlantic
Dates
July 20, 1976 to July 22, 1976
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 403 km (250 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
AL041976

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 20, 12:0031.0N 72.0W20 ktTropical depression
Jul 20, 18:0031.5N 72.1W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 00:0032.0N 72.3W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 06:0032.5N 72.4W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0033.0N 72.5W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 18:0033.3N 72.2W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 00:0033.5N 71.8W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 06:0033.7N 71.4W20 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 12:0034.0N 71.0W20 ktTropical depression

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.