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The decade of the 1800s featured the 1800s Atlantic hurricane seasons. While data is not available for every storm that occurred, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to give data of hurricane occurrences. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic basin. Most tropical cyclone ...
The 1780 Atlantic hurricane season was extraordinarily destructive and was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history with over 25,000 deaths. Four different hurricanes, three in October and one in June, caused at least 1,000 deaths each; this event has never been repeated and only in the 1893 and 2005 seasons were there two ...
The 1900 Atlantic hurricane season was a below average hurricane season that featured the Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. A total of 10 tropical cyclones formed, seven of which intensified into a tropical storm. Three of those made landfall in the United States.
First Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the HURDAT. 1852: 5 5 1 73.28 100+ 3 "Great Mobile" 3 "Great Mobile" One of three seasons in which all known cyclones became hurricanes. 1853: 8 4 2 76.49 40 4 Three: Earliest known Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. 1854: 5 3 1 31.00 30+ 3 "South Carolina" 3 "South Carolina" 1855 ...
The Key West Hurricane of 1841. October 18–21. [13] In October, a hurricane hit Cuba, crossing near Havana. After crossing the island, it passed by the Florida Keys on October 18 and 19. The hurricane eroded part of Key West, destroyed the keeper's house at Sand Key Light, and damaged the seawall and later headed towards Bermuda. Wrecked many ...
The Sea Islands Hurricane, packing estimated 121 mph winds and a 16-foot storm surge (a Category 3 by today’s scales), struck the Southeast coastlines in an explosive blitzkrieg of saltwater and ...
The hurricane impacted South Florida and Key West between August 14 and August 15. The hurricane then drove into Louisiana near Last Island on August 17 as a category 3 hurricane. It left at least 2,500 people dead and $7 million (1831 dollars) in damage. One of the great hurricanes of the century. See List of deadliest Atlantic hurricanes.
Before 1953, tropical storms and hurricanes were tracked by year and the order in which they occurred during that year, not by names.