Tropical Storm Claudia (1969)
Tropical Storm Claudia peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 22, 1969 and July 23, 1969.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Claudia, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- July 22, 1969 to July 23, 1969
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 1808 km (1123 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.8
- Identifier
- EP031969
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) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 00:00 | 13.4N 130.4W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 22, 06:00 | 14.3N 131.5W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 22, 12:00 | 15.1N 132.7W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 22, 18:00 | 15.7N 133.9W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 23, 00:00 | 16.1N 135.1W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 23, 06:00 | 16.0N 136.7W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Jul 23, 12:00 | 15.4N 138.3W | 25 kt | Tropical depression |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1969
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1969
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1969
- Tropical Storm AvaEastern Pacific · 1969
- Hurricane BerniceEastern Pacific · 1969
- Hurricane DoreenEastern Pacific · 1969
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1969
- Tropical Storm EmilyEastern Pacific · 1969
- Tropical Storm FlorenceEastern Pacific · 1969
- Hurricane GlendaEastern Pacific · 1969
- Tropical Storm HeatherEastern Pacific · 1969
- Tropical Storm IrahEastern Pacific · 1969
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1969
- Hurricane JenniferEastern Pacific · 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.