1978 Atlantic hurricane season
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The 1978 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. It officially started June 1, 1978, and lasted until November 30, 1978.
Notable storms of 1978 include Tropical Storm Amelia, which killed 30 when it flooded the Guadalupe River in Texas. Hurricane Greta was similar to 1974's Hurricane Fifi in track and was even more intense.
However, Greta did not produce the severe river flooding that Fifi caused, and improved warnings by the governments of Honduras, Belize, and their neighbors reduced the death toll by three orders of magnitude. One person was reported killed in Honduras, and four with three missing in Belize. Belize estimated damage at $25 million (1978 US dollars). No damage estimates were available from Honduras. Also, an unnamed subtropical storm formed in mid-January. This is one of the earliest of such systems to form in the Atlantic.
1978 Hurricane names
The following names were used for named storms (tropical storms and hurricanes) that formed in the North Atlantic in 1978.
- Amelia
- Bess
- Cora
- Debra
- Ella
- Flossie
- Greta
- Hope
- Irma
- Juliet
- Kendra
- Louise (unused)
- Martha (unused)
- Noreen (unused)
- Ora (unused)
- Paula (unused)
- Rosalie (unused)
- Susan (unused)
- Tanya (unused)
- Vanessa (unused)
- Wanda (unused)
See also
External link
- Detailed information on all storms from 1978 (ftp://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/pub/storm_archives/atlantic/prelimat/atl1978/)