The 1969 season

Hurricane Bernice (1969)

Hurricane Bernice reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 9, 1969 and July 17, 1969.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Bernice, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 9, 1969 to July 17, 1969
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 551 km (342 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.1
Identifier
EP021969

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 9, 00:0012.4N 102.2W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 9, 06:0011.8N 102.9W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 9, 12:0011.3N 103.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 9, 18:0011.0N 104.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 00:0010.9N 105.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 06:0011.0N 106.3W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 12:0011.2N 106.9W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 18:0011.6N 107.4W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0012.0N 107.9W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0012.2N 108.4W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0012.4N 108.8W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0012.6N 109.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0012.9N 109.8W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0013.3N 110.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0013.6N 111.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0013.9N 112.1W75 ktHurricane
Jul 13, 00:0014.2N 113.0W75 ktHurricane
Jul 13, 06:0014.7N 114.2W75 ktHurricane
Jul 13, 12:0015.3N 115.3W75 ktHurricane
Jul 13, 18:0015.7N 116.3W75 ktHurricane
Jul 14, 00:0016.1N 117.3W75 ktHurricane
Jul 14, 06:0016.6N 118.4W75 ktHurricane
Jul 14, 12:0017.1N 119.6W75 ktHurricane
Jul 14, 18:0017.6N 121.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0018.1N 122.4W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0018.4N 123.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0018.7N 124.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0018.9N 125.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0019.0N 126.3W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 16, 06:0019.1N 127.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 16, 12:0019.1N 129.1W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 16, 18:0019.1N 130.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 17, 00:0019.0N 132.2W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific 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.