The 1969 season

Hurricane Debbie (1969)

Hurricane Debbie reached Category 3 in the North Atlantic between August 14, 1969 and August 27, 1969, with a lowest pressure of 950 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Debbie, 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
August 14, 1969 to August 27, 1969
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
950 mb (28.05 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
24.9
Fastest the center moved
48 kt (55 mph)
Identifier
AL081969

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
Aug 14, 12:0013.0N 35.5W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 14, 18:0013.3N 37.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 15, 00:0013.5N 38.5W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0013.8N 40.0W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0014.0N 41.5W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0014.3N 43.0W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0014.5N 44.5W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0014.7N 45.7W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0015.0N 46.9W65 ktHurricane
Aug 16, 18:0015.5N 48.0W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 17, 00:0016.0N 49.0W70 ktHurricane
Aug 17, 06:0016.5N 50.0W75 ktHurricane
Aug 17, 12:0017.0N 50.8W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Aug 17, 18:0017.7N 51.7W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Aug 18, 00:0018.4N 52.6W90 kt966 mbHurricane
Aug 18, 06:0019.0N 53.3W90 kt967 mbHurricane
Aug 18, 12:0019.6N 54.0W85 kt971 mbHurricane
Aug 18, 18:0020.3N 54.6W85 kt971 mbHurricane
Aug 19, 00:0021.0N 55.4W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Aug 19, 06:0021.7N 56.6W80 kt976 mbHurricane
Aug 19, 12:0022.4N 57.8W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Aug 19, 18:0023.1N 59.2W100 kt964 mbHurricane
Aug 20, 00:0023.8N 60.6W110 kt954 mbHurricane
Aug 20, 06:0024.4N 62.1W110 kt952 mbHurricane
Aug 20, 12:0025.1N 63.3W110 kt954 mbHurricane
Aug 20, 18:0025.8N 64.2W110 kt950 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 00:0026.6N 64.9W95 kt959 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 06:0027.4N 65.1W95 kt958 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 12:0028.4N 64.8W95 kt959 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 18:0029.4N 64.0W95 kt959 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 00:0030.3N 62.8W95 kt959 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 06:0031.3N 61.4W90 kt965 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 12:0032.6N 60.0W90 kt964 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 18:0033.9N 58.8W90 kt963 mbHurricane
Aug 23, 00:0035.4N 57.5W90 kt965 mbHurricane
Aug 23, 06:0036.9N 56.3W85 kt967 mbHurricane
Aug 23, 12:0038.5N 55.0W80 ktHurricane
Aug 23, 18:0040.6N 53.8W75 ktExtratropical
Aug 24, 00:0043.0N 53.1W70 ktExtratropical
Aug 24, 06:0045.5N 52.7W65 ktExtratropical
Aug 24, 12:0048.0N 52.0W60 ktExtratropical
Aug 24, 18:0050.5N 50.5W55 ktExtratropical
Aug 25, 00:0053.0N 48.0W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 25, 06:0056.5N 43.5W50 ktExtratropical
Aug 25, 12:0060.5N 38.5W55 kt988 mbExtratropical
Aug 25, 18:0062.5N 33.5W50 kt990 mbExtratropical
Aug 26, 00:0063.5N 28.0W45 kt992 mbExtratropical
Aug 26, 06:0065.0N 18.0W45 kt993 mbExtratropical
Aug 26, 12:0066.0N 10.0W40 kt994 mbExtratropical
Aug 26, 18:0066.0N 7.5W40 kt995 mbExtratropical
Aug 27, 00:0066.5N 5.0W40 kt995 mbExtratropical
Aug 27, 06:0064.5N 0.0E40 kt995 mbExtratropical
Aug 27, 12:0064.5N 5.5E35 kt997 mbExtratropical

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.