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The List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 17th century encompasses all known and suspected Atlantic tropical cyclones from the 1600 to 1699. Although records of every storm that occurred do not survive, the information presented here originated in sufficiently populated coastal communities and ships at sea that survived the tempests.
This is a list of all known or suspected Atlantic hurricanes up to 1599. Although most storms likely went unrecorded, and many records have been lost, recollections of hurricane occurrences survive from some sufficiently populated coastal areas, and rarely, ships at sea that survived the tempests.
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; ... Pages in category "17th-century Atlantic hurricane seasons" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not ...
The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 was an extraordinarily powerful and devastating Atlantic hurricane that brushed Colonial Virginia and struck the New England Colonies in late August 1635. Accounts of the storm are very limited, but it was likely the most intense hurricane to hit New England since European colonization.
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 ...
Year: 1980. Location: Made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas. Peak Wind Speed: 190 mph. Deaths: 269. What happened: Allen is considered to be the only hurricane in the history of the Atlantic ...
The Great Hurricane of 1780 [2] [1] [3] was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere.An estimated 22,000 people died throughout the Lesser Antilles when the storm passed through the islands from October 10 to October 16. [4]
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 ...