The 1969 season

Tropical Storm Anna (1969)

Tropical Storm Anna peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between July 25, 1969 and August 4, 1969, with a lowest pressure of 1001 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Anna, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1969 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
July 25, 1969 to August 4, 1969
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
1001 mb (29.56 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 92 km (57 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.0
Identifier
AL061969

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
Jul 25, 06:009.0N 27.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 25, 12:009.1N 28.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 25, 18:009.3N 29.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 26, 00:009.5N 30.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 26, 06:009.7N 31.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 26, 12:0010.0N 32.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 26, 18:0010.4N 33.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 27, 00:0010.8N 34.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 27, 06:0011.2N 35.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0011.4N 36.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0011.7N 37.0W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0012.0N 38.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0012.3N 39.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0012.7N 40.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0013.1N 41.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0013.5N 42.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0013.9N 43.3W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0014.2N 44.6W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0014.5N 46.0W50 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0014.8N 47.6W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0015.0N 49.7W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0015.3N 51.9W45 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0015.7N 54.0W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0016.1N 56.2W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0016.8N 59.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0017.8N 62.0W35 ktDisturbance
Jul 31, 18:0019.0N 65.0W35 ktDisturbance
Aug 1, 00:0021.0N 67.0W35 ktDisturbance
Aug 1, 06:0023.5N 69.0W35 ktDisturbance
Aug 1, 12:0025.5N 70.3W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0027.0N 71.5W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0028.5N 73.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 2, 06:0029.9N 74.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 2, 12:0031.2N 74.7W30 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 18:0032.6N 74.5W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0034.0N 74.0W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0036.5N 72.5W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0039.0N 69.5W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0040.9N 65.6W60 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0041.5N 61.8W60 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0042.0N 57.5W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0042.5N 53.0W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0043.0N 47.0W45 ktTropical storm

Other North Atlantic storms of 1969

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.