The 1978 season

Tropical Storm Juliet (1978)

Tropical Storm Juliet peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between October 7, 1978 and October 11, 1978, with a lowest pressure of 1006 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Juliet, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1978 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 Atlantic
Dates
October 7, 1978 to October 11, 1978
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1006 mb (29.71 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 258 km (160 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.4
Fastest the center moved
22 kt (25 mph)
Identifier
AL201978

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
Oct 7, 18:0018.0N 55.6W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 00:0018.3N 56.6W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 06:0018.6N 57.7W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 12:0018.8N 58.7W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0019.0N 59.8W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0019.3N 60.9W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0019.7N 62.0W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0019.9N 63.0W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0020.3N 64.2W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0020.9N 65.4W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0021.7N 67.0W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0022.8N 68.8W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0024.3N 70.1W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0026.2N 70.9W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0028.3N 71.0W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0030.2N 69.9W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1978

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.