1969 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1969 hurricane season in the Atlantic officially began on June 1, 1969 and lasted until November 30, 1969. These data usually limits the period of the year from in which in the Atlantic basin are the most tropical cyclones.

The strongest storm of the year was Hurricane Camille, the seventh strongest in the Atlantic basin storm and the land seizure in the United States, the second strongest storm ever watched. Camille's land seizure was near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. There he met as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir -Simpson Hurricane Scale on land, killing 256 people and caused cost of 1.4 billion dollars ( 9.2 billion in 2005) to property damage. Other notable storms were Hurricane Francelia, causing severe flooding in Belize and 100 people killed, Hurricane Inga, which lasted almost 25 days and was at the time of the hurricane with the second longest ever observed duration, and Hurricane Martha, the floods and landslides in Costa Rica and created in Panama.

Activity of the season

The Atlantic hurricane season was 1969 with 18 tropical storms, 12 of which reached hurricane status, until 2005, the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, and it is still the second most active season in this basin. The probable reason for the increased activity were the significant differences in air pressure due to the La Niña, which also influenced the Pacific hurricane season in 1969 and the Pacific typhoon season 1969. Despite the high activity most tropical cyclones either remained above the sea, or the landfall was made with minimal strength.

Meteorologists had begun the end of the 1960s, to understand the relationship between tropical and subtropical storms; a series of eighteen hurricanes of the 1969 season was not so named. In addition, some of the tropical storms were subsequently classified as hurricanes.

Storms

Tropical Depression Seven

Tropical Storm Anna

Hurricane Blanche

Hurricane Camille

Hurricane Debbie

Tropical Storm Eve

Hurricane Francelia

Hurricane Gerda

Hurricane Holly

Tropical Depression Twenty-nine

Hurricane Inga

Hurricane Ten

Tropical Storm Elf

Subtropical Storm One

Tropical Storm Jenny

Hurricane Kara

Hurricane Laurie

Tropical Storm Sixteen

Hurricane Seventeen

Hurricane Martha

Martha was the south gelegenste hurricane history. No other hurricane made ​​landfall as far south as a Martha on 24 November 1969 on Panama. It was also the first and only hurricane landfall over Panama made ​​.

Storm names

The following names were used for naming the storms of the Atlantic hurricane season in 1969, with the name Blanche, Camille, Eve, Francelia, Holly, Kara, Laurie and Martha were used for the first time. Not assigned names are put in gray. On the list of names of tropical cyclones for the 1969 season was originally Carol, but it was sometime after the beginning of the season before August 14, replaced by Camille.

• Ann
• Blanche
• Camille
• Debbie
• Eve
• Francelia
• Gerda

• Holly
• Inga
• Jenny
• Kara
• Laurie
• Martha
• Netty (unused)

• Orva (unused)
• Peggy (unused)
• Rhoda (unused)
• Sadie (unused)
• Tanya (unused)
• Virgy (unused)
• Wenda (unused)

The name Camille was later removed from the list of names of tropical cyclones.