page_title: Timeline of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season / Timeline / August
context_page_description: The 1974 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the north Atlantic Ocean. There was near-average activity during the season, which officially began on June 1, 1974 and ended on November 30, 1974. These dates, adopted by convention, historically describe the period in each year when most tropical systems form. The first system of the season, Tropical Depression One, formed on June 22. The final system of the season, Tropical Depression Seventeen, dissipated on November 11.
  The 1974 season produced twenty tropical or subtropical depressions, of which eleven reached tropical or subtropical storm intensity. Four of the tropical storms became hurricanes, of which two became major hurricanes. At Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson scale, Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the season. It threatened two densely populated areas during its duration, Belize City, Belize and New Orleans, Louisiana, but veered away at the last moment each time. Even so, the storm caused much flooding and crop damage in and around the Yucatán Peninsula and Gulf Coast of the United States.
context_section_description: August 2
  1200 UTC (10 a.m. AST) – Tropical Depression Three dissipates in the central Atlantic Ocean.
  August 10
  1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) – Subtropical Storm Three forms south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
  August 12
  1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Four forms in the  southern tropical Atlantic Ocean.
  August 13
  1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Four strengthens into a tropical storm and is named Alma.
  1800 UTC (2 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Alma reaches a peak intensity of 65 mph (100 km/h).
  August 14
  1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Alma makes landfall on Trinidad and Tobago with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h).
  1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) – Subtropical Storm Three reaches its peak strength of 60 mph (95 km/h).
  1800 UTC (2 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Alma makes landfall on Venezuela with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h).
  August 15
  0600 UTC (2 a.m. EDT) – Subtropical Storm Three is absorbed by a frontal boundary just southeast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
  1800 UTC (2 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Alma rapidly dissipates over the mountains of Venezuela.
  August 24
  1200 UTC (7 a.m. CDT) – Tropical Depression Five forms north of Cuba in the Gulf of Mexico.
  August 26
  1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Six forms in the central Atlantic far from land.
  1200 UTC (7 a.m. CDT) – Tropical Depression Five makes landfall near Galveston, Texas, and dissipates.
  August 28
  0600 UTC (2 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Six strengthens into a tropical storm and is named Becky.
  1800 UTC (2 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Becky strengthens into a hurricane.
  August 29
  0600 UTC (2 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Seven forms off the Greater Antilles.
  1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Becky reaches category 2 hurricane strength.
  August 30
  0600 UTC (2 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Becky reaches major hurricane strength and a peak intensity of 115 mph (185 km/h).
  1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Seven strengthens into a tropical storm and is named Carmen.
  August 31
  1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Carmen strengthens into a hurricane.
  1800 UTC (3 p.m. AST) – Hurricane Becky weakens into a category 2 hurricane.
caption: Image of Subtropical Storm Three at peak strength.
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