Sam was a C3 tropical cyclone that formed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2021. The storm reached maximum sustained winds of 250 km/h (135 kt) with a minimum central pressure of 927 hPa. Tracking across the Gulf of Mexicoin the North Atlantic basin (, it potentially affected the US Gulf Coast, Mexico and Cuba. The storm traveled from approximately 10.0°-62.0° to 58.1°-22.3°, crossing a range of 48 latitude and 40 longitude.