The 1969 season

Tropical Storm Eve (1969)

Tropical Storm Eve peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between August 24, 1969 and August 27, 1969, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Eve. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
August 24, 1969 to August 27, 1969
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 161 km (100 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
AL121969

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 24, 18:0029.4N 79.2W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 00:0029.4N 78.5W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 06:0029.4N 77.6W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 12:0029.5N 76.9W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0029.7N 76.1W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0030.0N 75.2W40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0030.3N 74.4W45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0030.7N 73.7W45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0031.3N 72.9W45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0032.0N 71.5W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0032.5N 70.0W35 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.