The 1976 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1976)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the North Indian between September 8, 1976 and September 20, 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
September 8, 1976 to September 20, 1976
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
IO071976

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, 00:0017.2N 92.7ETropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0018.1N 92.1ETropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0018.8N 91.5ETropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0019.3N 91.0ETropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0019.6N 90.6ETropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0019.6N 90.6ETropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0019.6N 90.6ETropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0019.7N 90.4ETropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0019.9N 90.2ETropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0020.2N 89.8E40 ktXX
Sep 10, 12:0020.6N 89.4E40 ktXX
Sep 10, 18:0020.9N 88.9E40 ktXX
Sep 11, 00:0021.3N 88.4E35 ktXX
Sep 11, 06:0021.8N 87.8E30 ktXX
Sep 11, 12:0022.3N 87.0E20 ktXX
Sep 11, 18:0022.8N 85.8E20 ktXX
Sep 12, 00:0023.2N 84.6ETropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0023.9N 83.4ETropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0024.5N 82.4ETropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0024.7N 82.0ETropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0025.0N 82.1ETropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0025.2N 82.3ETropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0025.5N 82.6ETropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0025.5N 82.9ETropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0025.3N 83.2ETropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0024.9N 83.8ETropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0024.6N 84.4ETropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0024.7N 84.6ETropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0024.8N 84.7ETropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0024.5N 85.1ETropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0024.2N 85.5ETropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0024.0N 85.8ETropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0023.9N 85.9ETropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0023.9N 85.9ETropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0023.9N 85.9ETropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0023.9N 85.9ETropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0023.9N 85.9ETropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0023.9N 85.9ETropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0023.9N 85.9ETropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0023.8N 86.1ETropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0023.7N 86.3ETropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0023.7N 86.3ETropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0023.7N 86.3ETropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0023.7N 86.3ETropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0023.7N 86.3ETropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0023.7N 86.3ETropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0023.7N 86.3ETropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0023.7N 86.4ETropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0023.6N 86.7EMixed

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.