1939 Atlantic hurricane season

The first two cyclones of the season made landfall along the coast of the United States, collectively causing only minor damage.

The fifth and final storm was a minimal hurricane that wrought damage throughout the western Caribbean Sea, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

[3][4] Reports of the storm first came from the Mexican Weather Service office in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, and during the afternoon of June 12, vessels just offshore recorded squally conditions and choppy seas.

It continued steadily northward through the Gulf of Mexico, slowly strengthening to a peak of 50 mph (85 km/h) on June 14 with a minimum central pressure of 1,000 mbar (30 inHg).

A trough of low pressure turned it back to the north, and the cyclone made landfall near Mobile, Alabama, as a minimal tropical storm on June 16.

[6] Damage associated with the cyclone was generally minor, and only one life was lost when a boy fell into the swollen waters of a river and drowned.

[7] After weakening to a tropical storm, it quickly re-strengthened upon emerging into the Gulf of Mexico, and made another landfall near Apalachicola, Florida, on August 13.

Along the Florida Panhandle, the storm's winds impacted power, telephone, and telegraph lines, and inflicted $2,000 worth of damage to a dock warehouse.

A man in Cedar Key, Florida, drowned after rough surf overturned his rowboat,[5] and at least two other people suffered minor storm-related injuries.

[8] Torrential rain fell in Alabama as a result of the storm's slow forward movement, leading to severe flooding.

[5] On the afternoon of October 9, reports from the Leeward Islands of low pressures and unsettled weather indicated that a storm was forming in the vicinity.

The quickly escalating storm tracked northwestward before turning towards the northeast, away from a high pressure area building in from the west.

[10] Damage was fairly significant; the winds uprooted trees, shattered windows, and disrupted public utilities.

[11] In Newfoundland, the remnants of the storm destroyed a house in St. John's and caused minor flooding in other areas of the province.

The hurricane's center passed just north of the island of Jamaica later that day as it weakened back into a tropical storm.

The hurricane brought heavy rainfall, high winds, and pounding surf to the island, leaving one dead.