The 1969 season

Tropical Storm Jenny (1969)

Tropical Storm Jenny peaked at 40 kt in the North Atlantic between October 1, 1969 and October 5, 1969, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Jenny, 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
October 1, 1969 to October 5, 1969
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
AL241969

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.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 2, 21:00Naples, FL, 5 km away26.1N 81.8W40 kt (46 mph)1001 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Rainfall

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 707 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 11.31 inches (287 mm).

StationTotalPosition
OAKNOLIA 2 N11.31 in (287 mm)30.75N 91.00W
GREENWELL SPRINGS10.19 in (259 mm)30.55N 90.98W
COVINGTON 4 NNW7.94 in (202 mm)30.53N 90.12W
DELAND 1 SSE6.61 in (168 mm)29.02N 81.28W
PINE GROVE FIRE TWR6.52 in (166 mm)30.72N 90.75W
ST FRANCISVILLE 6 S5.93 in (151 mm)30.72N 91.30W
HAMMOND5.43 in (138 mm)30.48N 90.47W
BATON ROUGE RYAN AP5.33 in (135 mm)30.53N 91.15W
LSU BEN HUR FARM5.31 in (135 mm)30.37N 91.17W
JENNINGS5.14 in (131 mm)30.20N 92.67W
INDIAN LAKE ESTATES5.04 in (128 mm)27.80N 81.20W
OPELOUSAS4.77 in (121 mm)30.50N 92.10W

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 1, 12:0019.0N 83.7W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 18:0020.0N 83.2W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 2, 00:0021.2N 82.8W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 2, 06:0022.7N 82.5W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 2, 12:0024.2N 82.3W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0025.6N 82.0W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 21:00 landfall26.1N 81.8W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 00:0026.6N 81.6W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0027.6N 81.2W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 3, 12:0028.5N 80.7W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 3, 18:0028.9N 80.6W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 4, 00:0029.1N 80.9W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 4, 06:0029.1N 81.2W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 4, 12:0029.0N 81.5W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 4, 18:0028.4N 82.2W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 5, 00:0027.7N 83.0W25 ktTropical depression

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.