The 1976 season

Tropical Storm Wilda (1976)

Tropical Storm Wilda peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between July 17, 1976 and July 24, 1976, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Wilda, 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
Western Pacific
Dates
July 17, 1976 to July 24, 1976
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP111976

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 17, 00:008.2N 148.9E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:008.7N 148.3E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:009.2N 147.6E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:009.8N 146.9E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0010.4N 146.2E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0011.2N 145.9E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0012.0N 145.6E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0012.8N 145.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0013.6N 145.2E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0014.2N 145.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0014.7N 144.8E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0015.1N 144.6E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0015.5N 144.3E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0015.8N 143.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0016.1N 143.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0016.4N 142.3E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0016.8N 141.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0017.1N 140.9E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0017.5N 140.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0018.1N 139.4E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0019.0N 138.6E25 kt996 mbMixed
Jul 22, 06:0020.5N 138.1E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0022.2N 138.3E30 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0023.9N 138.3E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0025.6N 137.4E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0027.4N 135.7E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0029.4N 134.1E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0031.8N 132.9E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0033.8N 131.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0034.3N 131.6E15 kt1004 mbMixed
Jul 24, 12:0038.4N 131.1E15 kt1004 mbMixed
Jul 24, 18:0040.5N 130.0E1004 mbExtratropical

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.