The 1969 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1969)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between October 28, 1969 and November 1, 1969, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

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
October 28, 1969 to November 1, 1969
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 644 km (400 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Identifier
AL271969

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
Oct 28, 12:0030.5N 42.5W35 kt1014 mbSubtropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0031.3N 43.5W35 ktSubtropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0032.0N 44.5W40 ktSubtropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0032.7N 45.3W45 ktSubtropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0033.3N 45.9W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0033.8N 46.4W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0034.2N 46.8W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0034.7N 47.0W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0035.5N 46.8W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0036.5N 46.5W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0038.0N 46.0W40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0042.0N 46.0W40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0045.0N 45.0W40 kt994 mbExtratropical
Oct 31, 18:0047.0N 42.5W35 kt996 mbExtratropical
Nov 1, 00:0048.5N 40.0W35 kt998 mbExtratropical
Nov 1, 06:0050.5N 37.5W30 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Nov 1, 12:0052.5N 30.0W30 kt1001 mbExtratropical
Nov 1, 18:0055.0N 22.0W30 kt1002 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.