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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 Central Atlantic hurricane of 1782 was a hurricane that hit the fleet of Admiral Thomas Graves as it sailed across the North Atlantic in September 1782. It is believed to have killed some 3,000 people. See List of deadliest Atlantic hurricanes. [228] 1783 September 15–20 Off U.S. East Coast, North Carolina, South Carolina: N/A
From the beginning of the official North Atlantic hurricane record in 1851 to 1899, there were 12 years without a known tropical cyclone affecting the state. The strongest hurricane to hit the state during the official record was the San Ciriaco hurricane of 1899 , which struck the state with winds of 120 mph (195 km/h), [ 1 ] although the 1821 ...
August 1827 was a very active month with at least four hurricanes impacting the North Atlantic. August 1830 – Two hurricanes passed close to southeastern Massachusetts within a week of each other. First came the Atlantic Coast Hurricane on August 19 followed by a second hurricane around the 25th.
The First North Carolina Hurricane of 1842. July 10–14. [17] A major hurricane hit near Portsmouth, North Carolina, near Ocracoke on July 12. Two ships were capsized, killing their entire crews. It continued across Virginia, dissipating over Maryland. A second hurricane hit the same area in North Carolina just six weeks later. [18]
During the 1800s and early 1900s, hurricanes that happened in the West Indies were named after the particular Saint's Day on which the storm occurred. ... There are six alphabetical lists of names ...
The Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great Blizzard of '88 or the Great White Hurricane (March 11–14, 1888), was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. [ 3 ]
A historical, record-breaking series of hurricanes in the 1800s and early 1900s severely impacted agriculture in S.C. and Georgia, particularly the rice planters.