The 1976 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1976)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the North Indian between May 29, 1976 and June 5, 1976, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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.

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The storm

Basin
North Indian
Dates
May 29, 1976 to June 5, 1976
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
IO021976

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
May 29, 00:0011.5N 69.5ETropical storm
May 29, 06:0011.7N 69.7ETropical storm
May 29, 12:0012.0N 70.0ETropical storm
May 29, 18:0012.4N 70.4ETropical storm
May 30, 00:0012.8N 70.8ETropical storm
May 30, 06:0013.4N 71.1ETropical storm
May 30, 12:0014.0N 71.4ETropical storm
May 30, 18:0014.3N 71.5ETropical storm
May 31, 00:0014.5N 71.6ETropical storm
May 31, 06:0014.8N 71.6ETropical storm
May 31, 12:0015.2N 71.6ETropical storm
May 31, 18:0015.7N 71.5ETropical storm
Jun 1, 00:0016.3N 71.4ETropical storm
Jun 1, 06:0017.0N 71.1ETropical storm
Jun 1, 12:0017.6N 71.0ETropical storm
Jun 1, 18:0018.1N 71.1ETropical storm
Jun 2, 00:0018.5N 71.2ETropical storm
Jun 2, 06:0019.0N 71.3E35 ktXX
Jun 2, 12:0019.6N 71.4E40 ktXX
Jun 2, 18:0020.3N 71.6E40 ktXX
Jun 3, 00:0020.9N 71.8E40 ktXX
Jun 3, 06:0021.3N 72.0E40 ktXX
Jun 3, 12:0021.6N 72.1E35 ktXX
Jun 3, 18:0022.1N 72.4ETropical storm
Jun 4, 00:0022.5N 72.6ETropical storm
Jun 4, 06:0022.5N 72.6ETropical storm
Jun 4, 12:0022.5N 72.6ETropical storm
Jun 4, 18:0022.6N 72.7ETropical storm
Jun 5, 00:0022.8N 72.8ETropical storm
Jun 5, 06:0023.1N 73.0ETropical storm
Jun 5, 12:0023.5N 73.2EMixed

Other North Indian 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.