1940 season

Unnamed Tropical Storm, AL06 1940

Sep 18, 12:00 PM UTC – Sep 25, 6:00 AM UTC (6.8 days)

Peak
Tropical Storm
Max sustained wind
50 mph (45 kt)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb
Landfalls
1

Track

  • Hurricane
  • Tropical Storm
  • Tropical Depression
  • Other
  • Large white-ringed dots: landfall

Landfalls

  • Sep 24, 9:00 AM UTC · 29.8°N 93.4°W · Tropical Storm · 45 mph
Every track point (29)
UTCStatusPositionWind ktmbNote
1940-09-18 12:00TD12.0°N 81.5°W25—
1940-09-18 18:00TD12.2°N 81.9°W25—
1940-09-19 00:00TD12.4°N 82.4°W30—
1940-09-19 06:00TS12.7°N 82.9°W35—
1940-09-19 12:00TS13.2°N 83.4°W40—
1940-09-19 18:00TS14.0°N 84.1°W35—
1940-09-20 00:00TD14.8°N 84.8°W30—
1940-09-20 06:00TD15.5°N 85.4°W30—
1940-09-20 12:00TS16.3°N 86.0°W35—
1940-09-20 18:00TS17.1°N 86.7°W40—
1940-09-21 00:00TS17.9°N 87.4°W45—
1940-09-21 06:00TS18.6°N 88.2°W40—
1940-09-21 12:00TD19.4°N 89.0°W30—
1940-09-21 18:00TD20.2°N 90.0°W30—
1940-09-22 00:00TD21.0°N 91.0°W30—
1940-09-22 06:00TS21.9°N 92.0°W35—
1940-09-22 12:00TS23.0°N 93.0°W40—
1940-09-22 18:00TS24.2°N 93.9°W40—
1940-09-23 00:00TS25.6°N 94.7°W40—
1940-09-23 06:00TS26.9°N 95.1°W40—
1940-09-23 12:00TS28.0°N 95.1°W40—
1940-09-23 18:00TS28.8°N 95.0°W40—
1940-09-24 00:00TS29.3°N 94.5°W40—
1940-09-24 06:00TS29.7°N 93.8°W40—
1940-09-24 09:00TS29.8°N 93.4°W40—Landfall
1940-09-24 12:00TS30.2°N 92.9°W351004
1940-09-24 18:00TD30.8°N 91.8°W30—
1940-09-25 00:00TD31.4°N 90.5°W20—
1940-09-25 06:00TD32.0°N 88.5°W15—

From the National Hurricane Center's best-track archive (HURDAT2), its post-season reanalysis; values can differ from the advisories issued at the time. Source: hurdat2-1851-2025-092326.txt, hurdat2-nepac-1949-2025-092926.txt.