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1929 Atlantic hurricane season
Season summary map |
| First storm formed: |
June 27, 1929 |
| Last storm dissipated: |
Oct. 22, 1929 |
| Strongest storm: |
#2 - 120 knots (140 mph) |
| Total storms: |
3 |
| Major storms (Cat. 3+): |
1 |
| Total damage: |
$.25+ million (1929 USD) |
| Total fatalities: |
51 |
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Atlantic hurricane seasons
1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 |
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The 1929 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1929, and lasted until November 30, 1929. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
The 1929 season was a quiet one in the Atlantic. Only three tropical cyclones formed during the season, all of them reaching hurricane strength. One skimmed extreme south Florida as a Category 2 and another hit central Texas as a Category 1. The other stayed out to sea.
[edit] Storms
[edit] Hurricane One
A 40 mph (65 km/h) tropical storm formed on June 27 in the central Bay of Campeche. Moving northward, the developing storm strengthened to a hurricane shortly thereafter on June 28 while turning northwest. Continuing to move northwest and intensify, the hurricane reached its peak of 85 mph (135 km/h) later on June 28, and made landfall shortly thereafter near Matagorda Bay as a 75 mph (120 km/h) Category 1 hurricane late on June 28. The hurricane weakened quickly to a tropical storm and later a depression shortly after moving inland on June 29, and the system dissipated in south-central Texas shortly thereafter.
[edit] Hurricane Two
- Main article: 1929 Florida Hurricane
Of the season's storms, the 1929 Florida Hurricane was the most notable. In the Keys, roofs were torn off houses, debris was thrown through the air, and small craft were sunk in the harbors. It grazed the southwest coast and struck again at the Big Bend area as a strong tropical storm. The storm dissipated inland.
[edit] Hurricane Three
A tropical storm formed on October 15 in the eastern North Atlantic south-southwest of the Azores. Drifting slowly west-southwest, the system strengthened into a minimal hurricane on October 17 and began a slow counterclockwise loop while drifting to the west-northwest on October 18, followed by a south-southwest movement on October 19. The hurricane reached its peak of 90 mph (145 km/h) shortly thereafter on October 20 while still drifting south. The hurricane then began to curve back to the east and northeast while maintaining intensity on October 21, and the system began to accelerate the following day to the north-northeast. Turning to the north, the system maintained hurricane status while merging with a frontal system on October 22 and became extratropical.
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