 Hurricane Vince developed into a hurricane farther east than any other known storm , at 18 @.@ 9 ° W. The National Hurricane Center declared that Vince was the first tropical cyclone on record to have made landfall on the Iberian Peninsula . Historical documents , however , suggest that a possibly stronger tropical storm , the 1842 Spain hurricane , struck the Iberian Peninsula on October 29 , 1842 . Vince 's record north was broken by Tropical Storm Grace in 2009 . 
