1979 season track map
Category 5 (≥137kt)Intense hurricane/typhoon (≥113kt)Major hurricane/typhoon (≥96kt)Hurricane/typhoon (≥64kt)Named storm (≥34kt)Tropical depression (<34kt)Post-tropical / disturbance
Storms: DAVID (150kt), FREDERIC (115kt), BOB (65kt), GLORIA (85kt), HENRI (75kt), UNNAMED (65kt), ANA (50kt), CLAUDETTE (45kt), ELENA (35kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (25kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (30kt)
Hurricane-strength landfalls, 1979
Attributed to whichever basin a storm was actually crossing at the moment of landfall, matching the H/MH Landfalls columns above — that can differ from a storm's genesis basin shown elsewhere on this site.
- 1979 AL04 — BOB
- 1979 AL09 — DAVIDMH
- 1979 AL11 — FREDERICMH
Major-hurricane-strength landfalls, 1979
- 1979 AL09 — DAVID
- 1979 AL11 — FREDERIC