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Hurricane Agnes 1972

Category 1 hurricane · Atlantic · June 14 to June 21, 1972

Agnes made landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on June 19, 1972, with 75 mph winds. With a peak of 80 mph, it ranked the second-strongest of the 17 storms of the 1972 season. It produced 22% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. The name Agnes is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Agnes (1972) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N40°N100°W90°W80°W70°WAugustaAlbanyFlorida, 75 mphPeak 80 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 100 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Agnes (1972) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 304080120Jun 15Jun 16Jun 17Jun 18Jun 19Jun 20Jun 21Jun 22Jun 23mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 10 miles south-southwest of Peto, Yucatán, Mexico
  2. Tropical storm 45 miles southwest of Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico
  3. Hurricane 110 miles west of Pinar del Rio, Cuba
  4. Peak 185 miles south of Panama City, Florida; lowest pressure 979 mb
  5. Landfall Florida
  6. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 60 miles south of Virginia Beach, Virginia
  7. Last record 20 miles southeast of Rochester, New York

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind80 mph · tied 762nd of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure979 mb · tied 475th of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy6.2 · tied 742nd of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone7.2 days · tied 540th of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 1972 season

04080120Agnes

Storm 2 of 17 in 1972, hurricane 1 of 2; it formed after Alpha and before Storm 3 of 1972. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of at least 8 towns or cities of 10,000 people or more while the system was tropical. Distances are to the interpolated track line, not the storm's edge.

PlaceClosestWind thenDate
Aiken, South Carolina4 mi35 mphJune 21
Panama City, Florida5 mi75 mphJune 19
Sumter, South Carolina6 mi40 mphJune 21
Augusta, Georgia7 mi35 mphJune 20
Florence, South Carolina8 mi40 mphJune 21
Peto, Yucatán, Mexico9 mi30 mphJune 14
Albany, Georgia12 mi35 mphJune 20
Orangeburg, South Carolina13 mi40 mphJune 21

Every storm within 50 miles of Augusta, Georgia

Similar landfalls in Florida

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Florida came closest to Agnes's 75 mph:

  • Nicole (2022)75 mph, November 10, 2022
  • Floyd (1987)75 mph, October 12, 1987
  • Storm 2 of 193975 mph, August 11, 1939
  • Storm 5 of 193375 mph, July 30, 1933

All 229 storms with a landfall record in Florida

Also peaked at 80 mph

Of 152 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time:

  • Storm 4 of 1971998 mb, no landfall record
  • Storm 8 of 19701002 mb, landfall in North Carolina
  • Holly (1969)984 mb, no landfall record
  • Amy (1975)981 mb, no landfall record