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1979 season track map
Category 5 (≥137kt)Intense hurricane/typhoon (≥113kt)Major hurricane/typhoon (≥96kt)Hurricane/typhoon (≥64kt)Named storm (≥34kt)Tropical depression (<34kt)
Storms: TIP (165kt), VERA (140kt), HOPE (130kt), JUDY (135kt), ALICE (110kt), OWEN (110kt), SARAH (110kt), ABBY (110kt), BESS (90kt), CECIL (80kt), ELLIS (85kt), IRVING (90kt), LOLA (90kt), MAC (70kt), DOT (40kt), FAYE (40kt), GORDON (60kt), KEN (60kt), NANCY (45kt), PAMELA (45kt), ROGER (45kt), WAYNE (50kt), BEN (60kt), UNNAMED (30kt), UNNAMED (20kt), UNNAMED (25kt), UNNAMED (20kt), 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 WP03 — CECIL
- 1979 WP07 — ELLIS
- 1979 WP09 — HOPEMH
- 1979 WP12 — IRVING
- 1979 WP13 — JUDY
- 1979 WP19 — OWEN
- 1979 WP21 — SARAH
- 1979 WP23 — TIP
- 1979 WP24 — VERAMH
Major-hurricane-strength landfalls, 1979
- 1979 WP09 — HOPE
- 1979 WP24 — VERA