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EASTERN PACIFIC · SEASON MAP

1969 Pacific hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 14 storms · 31 May 1969–12 Oct 1969

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY32.7
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1969 Pacific hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 14 storms, colored by the wind category at each observation. Hover or focus a storm in the table to highlight its track.UNITED STATESMEXICOCUBACHINAJAPANPHILIPPINESINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanPhilippine SeaArabian SeaBay of BengalUnnamed: 31 May–31 May, no US-agency windUnnamed: 4 Jun–8 Jun, peak 26 kt, Tropical depressionAva: 1 Jul–8 Jul, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormBernice: 9 Jul–17 Jul, peak 75 kt, Category 1Claudia: 22 Jul–23 Jul, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormDoreen: 4 Aug–9 Aug, peak 75 kt, Category 1Unnamed: 9 Aug–9 Aug, no US-agency windEmily: 23 Aug–24 Aug, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormFlorence: 2 Sep–7 Sep, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormGlenda: 8 Sep–12 Sep, peak 65 kt, Category 1Heather: 19 Sep–25 Sep, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormIrah: 30 Sep–3 Oct, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 4 Oct–4 Oct, no US-agency windJennifer: 9 Oct–12 Oct, peak 65 kt, Category 1

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 1969 Pacific hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Unnamed–—Unclassified—0
Unnamed–26Tropical depression—460
Ava–45Tropical storm9991,570
Bernice–75Cat 1—1,870
Claudia–45Tropical storm—510
Doreen–75Cat 1—910
Unnamed–—Unclassified—0
Emily–55Tropical storm—490
Florence–60Tropical storm997770
Glenda–65Cat 19931,130
Heather–55Tropical storm—900
Irah–45Tropical storm—330
Unnamed–—Unclassified—0
Jennifer–65Cat 1—840

14 storms with an IBTrACS 1969 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 31 May 1969, last 12 Oct 1969.

Tropical storms10

Tropical-stage US-agency wind of 34 kt or more

Hurricanes4

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)0

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormBernice

75 kt · 86 mph / 139 km/h

Lowest pressure993 hPa

Glenda, 10 Sept 1969

Longest track record8 days

Bernice, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind3

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 1969 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 1969 Pacific hurricane season?

The archive records 4 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 10 tropical storms, with 0 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 1969 Pacific hurricane season?

Bernice, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 75 kt (Category 1) on 12 Jul 1969, 18:00 UTC.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 1969?

None. No storm in the 1969 Pacific hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale in the archive.

When did the 1969 Pacific hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 31 May 1969 and the last on 12 Oct 1969, from 14 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 1969 Pacific hurricane season?

Bernice, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 12 Jul 1969, 18:00 UTC.

METHODOLOGY

Data sources and limitations

The map and totals are generated from NOAA’s IBTrACS v04r01 archive. A storm belongs to this page when the archive lists it in the Eastern Pacific basin for the 1969 season, so a December storm whose track ends in January stays with its season. Storms that cross between basins appear on the page of their archive basin only.

Counts use US-agency one-minute winds during the tropical stage: 34 kt for a tropical storm, 64 kt for hurricane strength and 96 kt for major intensity, on the Saffir–Simpson scale in every basin. Local agencies classify storms differently, and official season summaries can differ from the archive. Accumulated cyclone energy sums squared winds at six-hourly synoptic times, counting observations in the calendar year. Storms with no US-agency wind are mapped but cannot enter the counts.

The map frame is the same for every Eastern Pacific season, so a track that leaves it is cut at the edge. Lines show each storm’s center, not its size, rainfall or flood extent. Coastlines use Natural Earth’s 1:10m land data.

Archive retrieved

NOAA IBTrACS archive · Field documentation

Sources & methodology