The 1929 season

Unnamed hurricane (1929)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between June 27, 1929 and June 30, 1929, with a lowest pressure of 982 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed hurricane, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1929 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
June 27, 1929 to June 30, 1929
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure
982 mb (29.00 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.2
Identifier
AL011929

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 27, 00:0021.3N 93.3W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 27, 06:0022.5N 93.4W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 27, 12:0023.6N 93.6W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 27, 18:0024.5N 93.9W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 28, 00:0025.4N 94.3W65 ktHurricane
Jun 28, 06:0026.2N 94.7W70 ktHurricane
Jun 28, 12:0027.0N 95.3W75 ktHurricane
Jun 28, 18:0027.8N 96.0W80 kt982 mbHurricane
Jun 28, 21:00 landfall28.3N 96.4W80 kt982 mbHurricane
Jun 29, 00:0028.8N 97.1W65 kt985 mbHurricane
Jun 29, 06:0029.4N 98.7W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 29, 12:0030.0N 101.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0030.8N 103.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:0031.8N 106.5W40 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 06:0033.0N 109.5W30 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1929

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.