Season effects

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This is a table of the storms in the 1976 Atlantic hurricane season. It mentions all of the season's storms and their names, landfall(s), peak intensities, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect(an example of such being a traffic accident or landslide), but are still related to that storm. The damage and death totals in this list include impacts when the storm was a precursor wave or post-tropical low, and all of the damage figures are in 1975 USD.

Saffir–Simpson scale
TD TS C1 C2 C3 C4 C5
1976 North Atlantic tropical cyclone statistics
Storm
name
Dates active Storm category

at peak intensity

Max 1-min
wind

mph (km/h)

Min.
press.
(mbar)
Areas affected Damage
(millions USD)
Deaths


One June 5 – June 7 Tropical depression None None 0
Two June 24 – June 29 Tropical depression None None 0
Amy June 26 – July 4 Tropical storm 70 (110) 981 North Carolina, Newfoundland minimal 0
Four July 4 – July 5 Tropical depression None None 0
Five July 12 – July 13 Tropical depression None None 0
Six July 18 - July 19 Tropical depression Mexico unknown unknown
Blanche July 23 - July 28 Category 1 hurricane 85 (140) 980 Maine, Nova Scotia minimal 0
Eight July 24 - July 26 Tropical depression 35 (55) 1008 Mexico unknown unknown
Nine July 27 - July 31 Tropical depression Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida >8.5 0
Caroline August 24 - September 1 Category 3 hurricane 115 (185) 963 Cuba, Yucatán peninsula unknown 0
Doris August 28 - September 4 Category 2 hurricane 110 (175) 965 None None 0
Twelve September 3 - September 6 Tropical depression None None 0
Thirteen September 3 - September 9 Tropical depression None None 0
Fourteen September 5 - September 7 Tropical depression Mexico unknown unknown
Fifteen September 11 - September 14 Tropical depression None None 0
Eloise September 13 - September 24 Category 3 hurricane 125 (205) 955 Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Florida, Alabama >550 80
Faye September 18 - September 29 Category 2 hurricane 105 (165) 977 Bermuda minimal 0
Gladys September 22 - October 3 Category 4 hurricane 140 (220) 939 None None 0
Nineteen September 25- September 30 Tropical depression Yucatán peninsula unknown 0
Twenty October 1 - October 1 Tropical depression Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia unknown unknown
Twenty-one October 3 - October 5 Tropical depression None None 0
Twenty-two October 13 - October 18 Tropical depression Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida unknown unknown
Twenty-three October 15 - October 17 Tropical depression None None 0
Hallie October 24 - October 28 Tropical storm 50 (85) 1002 South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia minimal 0
Twenty-five October 26 - October 29 Tropical depression Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize unknown unknown
Twenty-six November 7 - November 12 Tropical depression Honduras, Yucatán peninsula unknown unknown
Twenty-seven November 29 - December 1 Tropical depression None None 0
Two December 6 - December 13 Subtropical storm 70 (110) 985 None None 0
Season Aggregates
28 cyclones June 5 – December 13   140 (220) 939 >550 80

Season summary

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1976 North Atlantic tropical cyclone statistics
Storm
name
Dates active Storm category

at peak intensity

Max
wind

(mph)

Min.
press.
(mbar)
Landfall(s) Damage
(millions
USD)
Deaths
Where When Wind

(mph)

One 21 – 25 May Subtropical storm 50 994 Florida Panhandle May 23 40
Anna 28 July – 6 August Tropical storm 45 999 none
Belle 6 – 10 August Category 3 hurricane 120 957 Long Island, New York August 10 75 100 
Candice 18 – 24 August Category 1 hurricane 90 964 none
Dottie 18 – 21 August Tropical storm 50 996 Southeastern Florida August 19 40 Minor 
South Carolina August 21 40
Emmy 20 August – 3 September Category 2 hurricane 105 974 none (68) 
Frances 27 August – 7 September Category 3 hurricane 115 963 none
Three 12 – 17 September Subtropical storm 45 1011 South Carolina September 15 40 Minor 
Gloria 26 September – 4 October Category 2 hurricane 105 970 none
Holly 22 – 29 October Category 1 hurricane 75 990 none
Season Aggregates
10 cyclones May 21
-October 29
  120 957 5 landfalls 100 5 (68)