Hurricane Kendra (1978)

Hurricane Kendra reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between October 28, 1978 and November 3, 1978, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Kendra, 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 28, 1978 to November 3, 1978
Peak strength: Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure: 990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 258 km (160 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 3.8
Fastest the center moved: 51 kt (59 mph)
Identifier: AL231978

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Oct 28, 18:00	23.5N 72.7W	30 kt	1008 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 29, 00:00	24.2N 73.2W	40 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 29, 06:00	24.9N 73.6W	40 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 29, 12:00	25.7N 73.7W	55 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 29, 18:00	26.2N 74.1W	65 kt	995 mb	Hurricane
Oct 30, 00:00	27.3N 73.7W	65 kt		Hurricane
Oct 30, 06:00	28.1N 73.5W	65 kt		Hurricane
Oct 30, 12:00	28.9N 72.6W	70 kt	990 mb	Hurricane
Oct 30, 18:00	29.3N 72.3W	65 kt	998 mb	Hurricane
Oct 31, 00:00	30.0N 72.0W	45 kt	1006 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 31, 06:00	30.5N 72.1W	45 kt		Tropical storm
Oct 31, 12:00	31.1N 71.9W	45 kt		Tropical storm
Oct 31, 18:00	31.7N 71.7W	45 kt		Tropical storm
Nov 1, 00:00	32.6N 70.5W	45 kt		Tropical storm
Nov 1, 06:00	33.7N 68.2W	30 kt	1008 mb	Extratropical
Nov 1, 12:00	35.2N 65.5W	30 kt	1006 mb	Extratropical
Nov 1, 18:00	38.0N 60.5W	40 kt	1002 mb	Extratropical
Nov 2, 00:00	40.5N 55.5W	40 kt		Extratropical
Nov 2, 06:00	41.0N 50.0W	40 kt		Extratropical
Nov 2, 12:00	43.5N 44.0W	40 kt		Extratropical
Nov 2, 18:00	44.5N 39.5W	40 kt		Extratropical
Nov 3, 00:00	46.0N 35.0W	30 kt	1004 mb	Extratropical
Nov 3, 06:00	47.5N 31.0W	30 kt		Extratropical
Nov 3, 12:00	50.0N 27.0W	30 kt		Extratropical

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.