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1978 season track map
Category 5 (≥137kt)Intense hurricane/typhoon (≥113kt)Major hurricane/typhoon (≥96kt)Hurricane/typhoon (≥64kt)Named storm (≥34kt)Tropical depression (<34kt)
Storms: RITA (150kt), VIOLA (125kt), FAYE (105kt), OLIVE (85kt), TRIX (70kt), VIRGINIA (70kt), WENDY (80kt), CARMEN (80kt), ELAINE (65kt), JUDY (90kt), IRMA (65kt), LOLA (75kt), MAMIE (70kt), ORA (85kt), PHYLLIS (95kt), NADINE (60kt), POLLY (50kt), ROSE (40kt), SHIRLEY (35kt), AGNES (50kt), BESS:BONNIE (40kt), DELLA (45kt), GLORIA (40kt), HESTER (50kt), KIT (50kt), NINA (60kt), TESS (60kt), WINNIE (55kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (20kt), UNNAMED (25kt)
Hurricane-strength landfalls, 1978
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.
- 1978 WP11 — CARMEN
- 1978 WP21 — LOLA
- 1978 WP28 — RITAMH
Major-hurricane-strength landfalls, 1978
- 1978 WP28 — RITA