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The 1939 Atlantic hurricane season was the least active since 1930.The season had below normal activity, with only six tropical storms, of which three became hurricanes and one became a major hurricane, equivalent to Category 3 status or higher on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson scale. [1]
The 1939 Pacific hurricane season ran through the summer and fall of 1939. Before the satellite age started in the 1960s, data on east Pacific hurricanes was extremely unreliable. Most east Pacific storms were of no threat to land. However, 1939 saw a large number of storms threaten California.
June 16, 1939 – The first storm of the season hits near Mobile, Alabama, with its outer rainbands dropping heavy rainfall across Florida and killing one child in Wauchula. [55] August 11, 1939 – A minimal hurricane hits Fort Pierce and later on the Panhandle near Apalachicola. The storm causes minor damage, limited to uprooted trees and ...
The 1939 California tropical storm, also known as the 1939 Long Beach tropical storm, and El Cordonazo (referring to the Cordonazo winds or the "Lash of St. Francis" (Spanish: el cordonazo de San Francisco)), was a tropical cyclone that affected Southern California in September 1939. Formerly classified a hurricane, [1] it was the first ...
Long before Hurricane Hilary, 'El Cordonazo' or 'the Lash of St. Francis' devastated Long Beach and San Pedro in September 1939.
What happened in San Bernardino County and the High Desert when Hurricane El Cordonazo arrived on land in 1939?
Hurricanes that affect California are mainly the remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms. In the twentieth century, only four eastern Pacific tropical cyclones have brought tropical storm-force winds to the Continental United States: the 1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm, Tropical Storm Joanne in 1972, Tropical Storm Kathleen in 1976, and Tropical Storm Nora in 1997.
Hurricane Hilary made landfall in Mexico's Baja California Peninsula on Aug. 20, 2023, and was tracked from San Diego to east of Fresno as a tropical storm. No tropical storm has officially made ...