1929 Atlantic hurricane season

Infobox hurricane season | name=1929 Atlantic hurricane season
first storm formed=June 27, 1929
last storm dissipated=Oct. 22, 1929
strongest storm=#2 - 120 knots (140 mph)
total storms=3
major storms=1
total da

total fatalities=51
basin=Atlantic hurricane
five seasons=1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 The 1929 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1929. The 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.

torms

Hurricane One

infobox hurricane small
name=Hurricane One
category=cat1
type=hurricane

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formed=June 27
dissipated=June 29
highest winds=85 mph (135 km/h)
lowest pressure=988 mbarA 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 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 afterwards 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 afterwards. Damage in Texas was light.

Hurricane Two

infobox hurricane small
name=Hurricane Two
category=cat4
type=hurricane

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formed=September 22
dissipated=October 4
highest winds=140 mph (170 km/h)
lowest pressure=936 mbarOf this season's 3 storms, the 1929 Florida Hurricane (or the great Andros Island 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. It killed nearly 50 people in the Bahamas and caused catastrophic damage on Andros Island.

Hurricane Three

infobox hurricane small
name=Hurricane Three
category=cat1
type=hurricane

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formed=October 15
dissipated=October 22
highest winds=90 mph (145 km/h)
pressure=UnknownA 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) 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.

ee also

*List of tropical cyclones
*List of Atlantic hurricane seasons

External links

* [http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/mwreviews/1929.pdf Monthly Weather Review]