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1956 season track map

Major hurricane/typhoon (≥96kt)Hurricane/typhoon (≥64kt)Named storm (≥34kt)Tropical depression (<34kt)Post-tropical / disturbance

Storms: BETSY (105kt), ANNA (75kt), FLOSSY (80kt), GRETA (85kt), UNNAMED (50kt), DORA (50kt), ETHEL (50kt), UNNAMED (40kt), UNNAMED (40kt), UNNAMED (55kt), UNNAMED (40kt), CARLA (60kt)

Hurricane-strength landfalls, 1956

Attributed to whichever basin a storm was actually crossing at the moment of landfall, matching the H/MH Landfalls columns above — that can differ from a storm's genesis basin shown elsewhere on this site.

  • 1956 AL03 — ANNA
  • 1956 AL04 — BETSY
  • 1956 AL08 — FLOSSY

Major-hurricane-strength landfalls, 1956

None recorded.