2019 North Atlantic season

20 storms formed in the North Atlantic basin in 2019, from 20 May 2019 to 27 November 2019.

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Years2019
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Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

The 2019 season in numbers

The record holds 20 storms for the 2019 North Atlantic season, of which 18 had names.18 reached tropical storm strength (34 knots or more), 6 reached hurricane strength (category 1 or more) and 3 were major (category 3 or more).

  • 20storms
  • 18tropical storm strength or more
  • 6hurricane strength or more
  • 3major (category 3 to 5)
  • 132accumulated cyclone energy

Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the squared wind speed of every position of 34 knots or more, divided by 10,000. It is approximate here because the winds are 1-minute equivalents, and it is mostly useful for comparing seasons of one basin.

Strongest storms of 2019

  • Dorian (2019)24 August 2019 to 9 September 2019, peak Category 5 (160 kt), 910 hPa
  • Lorenzo (2019)22 September 2019 to 4 October 2019, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 933 hPa
  • Humberto (2019)12 September 2019 to 20 September 2019, peak Category 3 (110 kt), 950 hPa
  • Jerry (2019)17 September 2019 to 28 September 2019, peak Category 2 (90 kt), 976 hPa
  • Pablo (2019)23 October 2019 to 29 October 2019, peak Category 1 (70 kt), 977 hPa

All 20 storms of 2019

StormPeak
Andrea Tropical storm
Barry Category 1
Unnamed storm Tropical depression
Chantal Tropical storm
Dorian Category 5
Erin Tropical storm
Gabrielle Tropical storm
Fernand Tropical storm
Humberto Category 3
Imelda Tropical storm
Jerry Category 2
Karen Tropical storm
Lorenzo Category 4
Melissa Tropical storm
Unnamed storm Tropical depression
Nestor Tropical storm
Pablo Category 1
Olga Tropical storm
Rebekah Tropical storm
Sebastien Tropical storm

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