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1972 season track map
Category 5 (≥137kt)Intense hurricane/typhoon (≥113kt)Major hurricane/typhoon (≥96kt)Hurricane/typhoon (≥64kt)Named storm (≥34kt)Tropical depression (<34kt)Post-tropical / disturbance
Storms: RITA (145kt), KIT (120kt), PHYLLIS (120kt), TESS (125kt), BETTY (135kt), MARIE (115kt), LOLA (105kt), HELEN (100kt), IDA (110kt), NANCY (105kt), OLGA (105kt), PAMELA (110kt), RUBY (110kt), THERESE (105kt), ORA (80kt), SUSAN (65kt), ALICE (90kt), CORA (65kt), ELSIE (75kt), FLOSSIE (75kt), LORNA (75kt), SALLY (80kt), NINA (45kt), MAMIE (50kt), VIOLA (60kt), WINNIE (60kt), DORIS (55kt), GRACE (50kt), KATHY (60kt), VIOLET (55kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt)
Hurricane-strength landfalls, 1972
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.
- 1972 WP01 — KIT
- 1972 WP06 — ORA
- 1972 WP08 — RITA
- 1972 WP14 — BETTYMH
- 1972 WP15 — CORA
- 1972 WP17 — ELSIE
- 1972 WP18 — FLOSSIE
- 1972 WP20 — HELEN
- 1972 WP23 — LORNA
- 1972 WP28 — PAMELAMH
- 1972 WP30 — THERESEMH
Major-hurricane-strength landfalls, 1972
- 1972 WP14 — BETTY
- 1972 WP28 — PAMELA
- 1972 WP30 — THERESE