Hurricane Flossie (1978)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 4, 1978 to September 16, 1978

Peak strength

Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)

Lowest pressure

976 mb (28.82 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 584 km (363 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

11.7

Fastest the center moved

40 kt (46 mph)

Identifier

AL131978

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.

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Storm40 kt · 1002 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm AmeliaNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Storm45 kt · 1005 mb
• Tropical Storm BessNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Storm45 kt · 1005 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane CoraNorth Atlantic · 1978Cat 180 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm DebraNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Storm50 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane EllaNorth Atlantic · 1978Cat 4120 kt · 956 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm HopeNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Storm55 kt · 987 mb
• Hurricane Greta:OliviaNorth Atlantic · 1978Cat 4115 kt · 947 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm IrmaNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Storm45 kt · 1001 mb
• Tropical Storm JulietNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Storm45 kt · 1006 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane KendraNorth Atlantic · 1978Cat 170 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1978Tropical Depression25 kt

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.

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.