NHC AL011939 · Atlantic basin
Unnamed Tropical Storm of 1939
June 12, 1939 – June 18, 1939
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Unnamed 1939 storm peaked at Tropical storm with 63 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 93 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
The 1939 storm in the record
HURDAT2 tracks the unnamed storm of 1939 (AL011939) from June 12, 1939 to June 18, 1939; its peak was 63 mph (tropical storm). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on June 16 at 58 mph (tropical storm), 2 miles from Orange Beach, AL. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 93 US cities, in 3 states, most in Alabama (44) and Mississippi (28). The strongest pass was 58 mph (tropical storm) 2 miles from Orange Beach, AL; the centre came closest to Mount Vernon, AL, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Tropical storm
- Cities within 75 mi
- 93
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 3
63 mph
when closest
Cities Unnamed 1939 storm passed near, strongest first
Alabama (44)
- Orange BeachTropical storm · 2 mi
- Gulf ShoresTropical storm · 8 mi
- LillianTropical storm · 11 mi
- ElbertaTropical storm · 4 mi
- FoleyTropical storm · 2 mi
- SummerdaleTropical storm · overhead
- SilverhillTropical storm · 1 mi
- RobertsdaleTropical storm · 6 mi
- FairhopeTropical storm · 9 mi
- CodenTropical storm · 29 mi
- LoxleyTropical storm · 2 mi
- DaphneTropical storm · 6 mi
- TheodoreTropical storm · 24 mi
- IrvingtonTropical storm · 29 mi
- Spanish FortTropical storm · 5 mi
- Grand BayTropical storm · 33 mi
- MobileTropical storm · 19 mi
- FlomatonTropical storm · 41 mi
- Bay MinetteTropical storm · 8 mi
- ChickasawTropical storm · 12 mi
- PrichardTropical storm · 13 mi
- WhistlerTropical storm · 14 mi
- BrewtonTropical storm · 51 mi
- SatsumaTropical storm · 8 mi
- SaralandTropical storm · 11 mi
- Eight MileTropical storm · 15 mi
- SemmesTropical storm · 22 mi
- AtmoreTropical storm · 29 mi
- WilmerTropical storm · 24 mi
- ChunchulaTropical storm · 12 mi
- EvergreenTropical storm · 68 mi
- Mount VernonTropical storm · overhead
- CitronelleTropical storm · 12 mi
- Frisco CityTropical storm · 43 mi
- McintoshTropical storm · 2 mi
- MillryTropical storm · 33 mi
- MonroevilleTropical storm · 50 mi
- ThomasvilleTropical storm · 54 mi
- ButlerTropical storm · 62 mi
- Pine HillTropical storm · 63 mi
- ChatomTropical storm · overhead
- JacksonTropical storm · 22 mi
- Grove HillTropical storm · 34 mi
- CamdenTropical storm · 71 mi
Florida (21)
- PensacolaTropical storm · 23 mi
- NavarreTropical storm · 43 mi
- Mary EstherTropical storm · 53 mi
- Hurlburt FieldTropical storm · 58 mi
- Fort Walton BeachTropical storm · 59 mi
- ShalimarTropical storm · 62 mi
- Eglin AfbTropical storm · 63 mi
- ValparaisoTropical storm · 67 mi
- NicevilleTropical storm · 70 mi
- DestinTropical storm · 70 mi
- CrestviewTropical storm · 70 mi
- Miramar BeachTropical storm · 74 mi
- Gulf BreezeTropical storm · 38 mi
- MiltonTropical storm · 42 mi
- PaceTropical storm · 33 mi
- CantonmentTropical storm · 24 mi
- BakerTropical storm · 66 mi
- MolinoTropical storm · 27 mi
- JayTropical storm · 43 mi
- Mc DavidTropical storm · 24 mi
- CenturyTropical storm · 36 mi
Mississippi (28)
- PascagoulaTropical storm · 49 mi
- Moss PointTropical storm · 44 mi
- GautierTropical storm · 53 mi
- Ocean SpringsTropical storm · 60 mi
- DibervilleTropical storm · 65 mi
- BiloxiTropical storm · 68 mi
- VancleaveTropical storm · 54 mi
- LucedaleTropical storm · 36 mi
- SaucierTropical storm · 73 mi
- PerkinstonTropical storm · 68 mi
- Mc HenryTropical storm · 71 mi
- State LineTropical storm · 29 mi
- BuckatunnaTropical storm · 36 mi
- RichtonTropical storm · 46 mi
- WaynesboroTropical storm · 47 mi
- ShubutaTropical storm · 60 mi
- OvettTropical storm · 60 mi
- PetalTropical storm · 67 mi
- QuitmanTropical storm · 68 mi
- LaurelTropical storm · 70 mi
- HeidelbergTropical storm · 70 mi
- EllisvilleTropical storm · 71 mi
- HattiesburgTropical storm · 73 mi
- MoselleTropical storm · 74 mi
- LeakesvilleTropical storm · 27 mi
- BeaumontTropical storm · 42 mi
- BrooklynTropical storm · 55 mi
- WigginsTropical storm · 64 mi
Other storms of the 1939 season
- Unnamed (AL021939)Category 1 · 359 cities
- Unnamed (AL041939)Tropical storm · 149 cities
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.