UDC 661.616.23:661.~.1(261)"1971" Atlantic Hurricane Season of 1971

• Main Authors: R. H. Simpson, National Weather
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.2880; http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/100/mwr-100-04-0256.pdf

season in the North Atlantic is presented together with detailed accounts of all named tropical cyclones. 1. GENERAL SUMMARY The 1971 hurricane season produced a total of 12 named tropical cyclones (fig. l), only five of which acquired hurricane intensity. Five named cyclones reached the coast of the United St8ates, only two bearing hurricaneforce winds at the time. For this reason, property damage and loss of life were relatively low in the United States ($212.58 million in property damage, eight fatalities), the heaviest losses occurring in tropical storm Doria which never reached hurricane intensity but whose heavy rains caused serious flooding in the Middle Atlantic and the New England States. A summary of 1971 hurricane statistics is shown in table 1.