The 1969 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1969)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between September 29, 1969 and October 3, 1969, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
September 29, 1969 to October 3, 1969
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
AL231969

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
Sep 29, 12:0023.5N 85.5W30 kt1004 mbSubtropical depression
Sep 29, 18:0024.0N 85.7W35 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0024.5N 86.0W40 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0025.0N 86.2W40 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0025.5N 86.4W45 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0026.2N 86.5W50 kt998 mbSubtropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0026.9N 86.6W50 kt996 mbSubtropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0027.9N 86.6W50 kt995 mbSubtropical storm
Oct 1, 12:0029.2N 86.7W45 kt995 mbSubtropical storm
Oct 1, 16:00 landfall30.4N 86.8W40 kt999 mbSubtropical storm
Oct 1, 18:0030.8N 86.8W35 kt999 mbSubtropical storm
Oct 2, 00:0033.0N 86.9W25 kt1001 mbSubtropical depression
Oct 2, 06:0035.3N 86.8W20 kt1003 mbSubtropical depression
Oct 2, 12:0038.0N 86.0W20 ktSubtropical depression
Oct 2, 18:0040.5N 84.0W20 ktSubtropical depression
Oct 3, 00:0041.2N 82.0W20 ktSubtropical 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.