page_title: Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season / Timeline / June
caption_attribution_description: Saffir-Simpson Hurricane ScaleTDTS12345 English: Hurricane Agnes (1972) track. Uses the color scheme from the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
context_page_description: The 1972 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the north Atlantic Ocean. It was a significantly below average season, having only four fully tropical named storms, the fewest since 1930. It was one of only five Atlantic hurricane seasons since 1944 to have no major hurricanes, the others being 1968, 1986, 1994, and 2013. The season officially began on June 1, 1972 and ended on November 30, 1972. These dates, adopted by convention, historically describe the period in each year when most tropical systems form. However, storm formation is possible at any time of the year, as demonstrated in 1972 by the formation of Subtropical Storm Alpha on May 23. The season's final storm, Subtropical Storm Delta, dissipated on November 7.
  The season produced nineteen tropical or subtropical cyclones, of which seven intensified into tropical or subtropical storms; three became hurricanes, of which only but only one, Betty, had sustained winds greater than minimum hurricane force. Despite its relative inactivity, the 1972 season resulted in one of the worst natural disasters in American history, Hurricane Agnes.
context_section_description: June 1
  The 1972 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins.
  June 14
  12:00 UTC (7:00 a.m. CDT) – A tropical depression forms over the Yucatan Peninsula.
  June 15
  18:00 UTC (1:00 p.m. CDT) – The tropical depression emerges off the Yucatan Peninsula into the western Caribbean Sea with winds of 35 mph (55 km/h).
  June 16
  12:00 UTC (7:00 a.m. CDT) – The tropical depression strengthens into Tropical Storm Agnes.
  June 18
  12:00 UTC (7:00 a.m. CDT) – Tropical Storm Agnes strengthens into the first hurricane of the season.
  June 19
  06:00 UTC (1:00 a.m. CDT) – Hurricane Agnes attains its peak intensity, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (135 km/h).
  18:00 UTC (1:00 p.m. CDT) – Hurricane Agnes makes landfall near Panama City, Florida with winds of 85 mph (135 km/h).
  June 20
  00:00 UTC (7:00 p.m CDT, June 19) – Hurricane Agnes weakens into a tropical storm.
  06:00 UTC (1:00 a.m. CDT) – Tropical Storm Agnes rapidly weakens into a tropical depression.
  June 21
  18:00 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Agnes unexpectedly re-strengthens into a tropical storm while over eastern North Carolina.
  June 22
  00:00 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT, June 21) – Tropical Storm Agnes emerges into the Atlantic Ocean near Nags Head, North Carolina.
  12:00 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Agnes reaches its secondary peak intensity, with maximum winds of 70 mph (115 km/h).
  18:00 UTC (1:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Agnes makes landfall near New York City, New York with winds of 65 mph (105 km/h).
  June 23
  04:00 UTC, (12:00 a.m. EDT) – The NHC issues its final advisory on Tropical Storm Agnes, after the system is absorbed by a developing extratropical cyclone over north-eastern Pennsylvania.
caption: Track map of Hurricane Agnes
exif: {}