Tropical Storm Ana (1979)

Tropical Storm Ana peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between June 19, 1979 and June 24, 1979, with a lowest pressure of 1005 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Ana, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1979 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: June 19, 1979 to June 24, 1979
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure: 1005 mb (29.68 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 369 km (229 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 0.8
Fastest the center moved: 17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier: AL021979

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Jun 19, 12:00	10.0N 45.0W	25 kt	1011 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 19, 18:00	10.2N 46.0W	25 kt	1011 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 20, 00:00	10.5N 47.0W	25 kt	1010 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 20, 06:00	10.9N 48.1W	25 kt	1010 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 20, 12:00	11.3N 49.2W	25 kt	1010 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 20, 18:00	11.8N 50.2W	25 kt	1009 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 21, 00:00	12.3N 51.1W	30 kt	1009 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 21, 06:00	12.9N 51.9W	30 kt	1008 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 21, 12:00	13.5N 52.7W	30 kt	1008 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 21, 18:00	13.9N 53.5W	30 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 22, 00:00	14.2N 54.7W	35 kt	1007 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 22, 06:00	14.2N 55.8W	40 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 22, 12:00	14.2N 56.9W	50 kt	1006 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 22, 18:00	14.1N 58.3W	40 kt	1008 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 23, 00:00	14.1N 59.8W	35 kt	1010 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 23, 06:00	14.0N 61.3W	30 kt	1012 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 23, 12:00	14.0N 62.8W	25 kt	1012 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 23, 18:00	14.0N 64.5W	25 kt	1012 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 24, 00:00	14.0N 66.2W	25 kt	1012 mb	Tropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1979

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.