Hurricanes

The 2009 season

100 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Tracks

The track of every 2009 storm in every basin on one map, colored by the strength it held at each point. Each storm is listed below with its own page.

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Deaths and damage

2 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 11 people in all, and 1 as having done damage, $46 million of it.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

11 storms, 9 at tropical storm strength, 3 hurricanes, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 52.6.

Eastern Pacific

23 storms, 20 at tropical storm strength, 8 hurricanes, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 127.2.

Western Pacific

30 storms, 23 at tropical storm strength, 15 typhoons, 7 major; accumulated cyclone energy 275.2.

North Indian

8 storms, 5 at tropical storm strength, 1 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 7.8.

South Indian

18 storms, 18 at tropical storm strength, 7 at hurricane force, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 81.6.

South Pacific

10 storms, 9 at tropical storm strength, 1 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 33.7.

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.