Atlantic hurricane seasons 1701–1800

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The years 1701 through 1800 represented the 1701–1800 hurricane seasons . While data is not available for every storm that has occurred, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to provide data on hurricane occurrences. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic Basin. Most tropical cyclones form between June and November.

Description of a hurricane

A hurricane that between 28 August and 30 August 1772 on the eastern Greater Antilles hinwegzog and later Jamaica met before northwestward through the Gulf of Mexico pulling for Alabama wandered, was from the at that time on Saint Croix living Alexander Hamilton described in a letter to his father:

"Dear Sir,
I am picking up my pen just to give you an incomplete report on one of the most terrible hurricanes that memory or any notes could ever locate, which occurred here on the 31st of the last night of the night. It started around dark, in the north, and raged violently until ten o'clock. Immediately this was followed by a sudden and unexpected interval that lasted around an hour. Meanwhile the wind shifted to the southwest point, from where it returned with a doubled frenzy and continued until nearly three in the morning. Good God! What horror and annihilation - it is impossible for me to describe it - or to give you an idea of ​​it. It seemed as if a total dissolution of nature would take place. The roar of the sea and the wind - fire meteors flew through the air - the tremendous glow of the almost incessant lightning - the crash of collapsing houses - and the deafening cries of the troubled people were enough to astonish even both angels. Much of the buildings all over the island were torn to the ground - almost all of the rest were shaken - some people were killed and many are completely ruined - entire families run across the streets without knowing where to find shelter - the vomit in the crowd bumped by air and water - with no bed to lie on - or anything dry to cover your body - and our ports are utterly empty. In a word, misery, in its most hideous forms, spread over the entire face of the land ... "

The letter was reprinted in several New York newspapers .

Storms

year place date Deaths Damage / remarks
1700 Charleston , South Carolina September 14th 98 nv
1703 Virginia , Maryland , New England October 18 nv Large wind and flood damage; many ships were missing
1705 Havana , Cuba nv Many were missing 4 ships missing
1706 Virginia November 6th nv 14 ships missing
1707 St. Augustine , Florida 30. September nv Heavy floods and damage
1708 Southwest caribbean nv 578 nv
1712 Jamaica September 8th 400 Many houses destroyed
1713 Martinique September 4th and 5th 100 nv
1713 South carolina 16th September 70 Heavy floods, created new inlets
1714 Florida Keys Late June Many drowned Many ships sunk
1715 Bahamas , Florida Keys 30th July 1000 to 2500 4 ships missing; Sinking of the silver fleet
1720 Puerto Rico nv 500 nv
1722 Puerto Rico , Jamaica , Carolina August 28th to September 3rd 280 nv
1722 Jamaica , Louisiana , South Carolina September 10th to 28th 400
  • Moved through the Lesser Antilles on September 11th.
  • Shore in Louisiana on September 23 with 15 hours of hurricane winds and a 2.5 m high storm wave.
  • Many ships went missing in Louisiana.
  • The 2.5 m high storm wave caused floods in New Orleans , which led to the move as the state capital to Baton Rouge .
  • Three days of torrential rain in South Carolina around September 27th.
1723 Massachusetts February 23 and 24 0
1724 Chesapeake Bay August 23 nv Serious crop damage, a ship missing
1724 Hispaniola 12th September 121 nv
1726 Jamaica November 2 18+ nv
1728 Carolina August nv nv
1730 Jamaica September 1 nv A ship including the ex-president of Panama went missing.
1731 Leeward Islands June 24th 1+ two ships destroyed
1733 Bahamas , Florida Keys 15th of July 56 Sinking of the silver fleet
1737 Dominican Republic the 9th of September Some people drowned Many ships destroyed
1740 Puerto Rico September 11th and 12th nv Two ships destroyed
1740 Louisiana September 23rd nv Destroyed the city of La Balize , Louisiana
1742 Virgin Islands , Puerto Rico October 27th and 28th nv Two ships missing
1743 Jamaica the 20th of October "A big number" nv
1744 Jamaica October 31st and November 1st 182 nv
1746 Caribbean nv nv Thirteen ships destroyed
1747 Virginia September 15th 50+ Training service ship destroyed
1747 North Carolina , Massachusetts 8th October "Lots" Seven ships destroyed
1747 Bermuda October 10th "Violent storm wind"
1747 St. Kitts October 24th "More than 20 sailing ships missing"
1748 Remote from the Virginia Cape September 11 "Disturbed Refugees"
1748 Bermuda October 13th Up to £ 20,000 in damage
1749 North Carolina , Virginia , Maryland October 12th A family £ 30,000, flood and tree damage
1750 Close to North Carolina 17th August nv Four ships missing
1751 St. Kitts 24th July Entire team Missing a ship
1752 South carolina September 15th 103 nv
1752 Cuba September 26th nv Sixteen ships missing
1752 Close to Florida October 22nd 7+ Twelve ships missing
1754 Santo Domingo September nv Twelve ships missing
1757 Virginia August 11th 3 days of rain; large gusts from SW-NW-N
1758 St. Kitts November 10th 200 nv
1758 Saint Marks , Florida nv 40 nv
1760 Bermuda October 25 50 "Minimal hurricane"
1761 Outer Banks of North Carolina September 20th nv A "serious equinox" breached the Outer Banks. This "New Inlet" was built in 1881 at a cost of US $ 600,000 (1881; today's prices: US $ 15,452,000).
1766 Martinique 13 August 440
1766 Galveston , Texas September 4th nv Five ships were destroyed, but the crew and items were saved. A Spanish mission called Nuestra Senora De la Luz and the Presidio San Augustine de Ahumado on the lower Trinity River were destroyed. The Constance Bayou in Louisiana were named after one of the ships that was smashed in this storm.
1766 St. Christopher, Montserrat 13.september nv half the city and many ships destroyed
1766 Guadeloupe October 6th nv a slave ship with all the people on board sank
1766 Northwest Florida 23rd October nv one ship sank with all the crew except three
1767 Martinique August nv 1600 injured
1767 North Carolina 21st September nv A number of ships were missing. Floods in Virginia completely destroyed a mill in Warwick County .
1768 Havana , Cuba 15th October 1000 nv
1769 North Carolina 5th September at least 6 A ship sunk, severe flooding, many old houses in eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia (especially around Williamsburg, York, Hampton and Norfolk) were destroyed after 13 hours of strong winds.
1769 Northeast Florida , South Carolina September 25-28 approached St. Augustine , Florida , but turned northeast and landed at Charleston on the 28th . The damage in Carolina was minimal, while crop damage occurred in northeast Florida.
1772 Puerto Rico , Hispaniola , Jamaica , Alabama August 28th to September 4th at least 280 A westward moving hurricane hit Puerto Rico on August 28 and Hispaniola on August 30, and later Jamaica . It moved northwest through the Gulf of Mexico and hit a little west of Mobile , Alabama on September 4th . Many ships in the Mobile area were destroyed.
1772 North Carolina September 1 50 fourteen ships thrown ashore
1773 Virginia 26th of August nv major damage to ships in the area
1773 Southeast Virginia September 30th to October 2nd nv Three days of continuous rain in the region
1774 Virginia August 24th and 25th nv "August Nor'easter ", which brought two days of continuous rain
1774 Maryland September 3 nv The roof of the Maryland Capitol in Annapolis was damaged.
1775 Caribbean end of July nv nv
1775 North Carolina, Virginia, Newfoundland August 29th to September 9th 4000-4163 The 1775 Newfoundland Hurricane is the sixth highest casualty Atlantic hurricane; the storm hit the Outer Banks on August 29, bringing heavy rainfall to southeastern Virginia and turning northeast. Met on the east coast of Newfoundland on September 9th. Most of the victims were drowned sailors from England and Ireland; the storm surge reached a height of 6 to 9 meters. Considered the greatest natural disaster in Canadian history.
1775 Turks and Caicos Islands November 2 at least eleven some English warships
1776 Carolina nv The hurricane hampered American Revolutionary War fighting in Virginia; Supply ships sank in Chesapeake Bay ; moderate damage in the area.
1776 Martinique and Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe September 5th and 6th over 6000 nv
1777 near the Florida coast June nv Spanish ship sunk, no survivors
1777 Central Atlantic September 10 nv Five ships were lost
1778 12. August Virginia nv Prevented a sea battle between the British and French fleets as the approaching hurricane separated the ships.
1778 Cuba 28th of October Several Most of the victims drowned.
1778 Cape Cod , Massachusetts November 1st 50-70 May be related to the event from 28–31 October in connection.
1779 Louisiana 18th of August nv All ships except one of the Spanish navy sank off the coast. Hit the port of New Orleans and drove the ships in the port far inland. Heavy damage. William Dunbar theorized for the first time that a hurricane revolves around a “vortex” in the center.
1779 Martinique August 28th "lots" nv
1779 Atlantic coast 3rd of December 120 nv
1780 The 1780 Atlantic hurricane season was extraordinarily devastating and the most lossy on record, with over 25,000 casualties. Three different hurricanes, all in October, each caused at least 1,000 deaths; such an event has not been repeated since then, and only two such hurricanes occurred in 1893 and 2005 .
1781 at Jamaica August 1st nv Many ships sank and were driven ashore.
1781 near New Orleans August 23 nv nv
1781 Florida 2000
1782 September 16 and 17 3000 several war and merchant ships of an English convoy sank off Newfoundland.
1783 US east coast September 19th nv Three ships sank.
1783 North Carolina and Virginia nv Extensive damage in North Carolina. Richmond faced violent northeast gusts for 24 hours, but no damage. Norfolk and Portsmouth reported a "25-foot wave" causing damage.
1784 Jamaica 30th July at least two drowned (possibly many)
1784 Curacao nv nv Many ships were either damaged or destroyed.
1785 Saint Croix , Puerto Rico , Jamaica and Cuba August 24-29 142 nv
1785 Delaware September 2nd 181 One of the few hurricanes ever in this state.
1785 Chesapeake Bay September 23rd and 24th nv The "highest wave known in Norfolk until then." Portsmouth experienced a hard north-east to north-west wind for 3 days. The Virginia storm was noted in both the October 1st Virginia Gazette and the October 1st New Jersey Gazette.
1786 Barbados September 2nd lots
1786 in eastern Virginia 5th October nv A possible tropical storm resulted in heavy rains. According to George Washington, the waves at Mount Vernon were "occasionally high" with "high freshness". James Madison near Montpelier saw the Rapidan River overflow its banks. The center must have happened near its location when the winds shifted from southeast to southwest.
1786 Jamaica the 20th of October 7th Direct hit
1787 Belize September 2nd 100 injured
1787 Honduras September 23rd about 100 nv
1788 Virginia, Chesapeake Bay July 23rd and 24th nv George Washington reported a "very high northeast wind" from Mount Vernon, which caused ships to sink and trees to be felled. One of the "most violent and serious hurricanes in many years." Madison in Montpelier reported "great winds and rains." According to the Philadelphia Independent Gazette on August 8, the Norfolk storm began and blew from the northeast on the 23rd at 5pm 12:30 a.m. from the south a "perfect hurricane ...". The wave was smaller than 1785. Alexandria also saw the winds turn from east-northeast to south, causing the highest known wave in the Potomac.
1788 Martinique , Dominica , Bahamas , New England August 14th to 19th 600 to 700 nv
1788 New Jersey, New York and New England August 19th nv "Considerable damage in Connecticut and western Massachusetts."
1791 West cuba June 21 and 22 3000 Damage to crops and livestock
1791 South Texas nv Padre Island and the nearby mainland were flooded. A herd of 50,000 cattle belonging to a Spanish cattle baron drowned in the storm surge.
1792 Lesser Antilles August 1st nv Some ships destroyed.
1793 Virgin Islands August 13th to 16th 28 nv
1793 Louisiana August Crop damage and minor floods. This storm may have coincided with the 13-16th August in connection.
1794 Jamaica June 27th, end of July "Caused many deaths" A tropical storm hit the island, destroying at least one ship. A month later, a hurricane hit the island and "caused many deaths".
1794 North Carolina July 4th to 6th nv In Annapolis, William Faris noted in his diary that “it rained and blew very hard” during the night. At 10 or 11 o'clock on the 6th everything brightened up again.
1794 Cuba , Louisiana August 27th to 31st 100 in Cuba, "many deaths" in Louisiana Severe flooding, high winds, crop damage and unusually large hail occurred in Louisiana.
1794 Northeast Florida the beginning of October nv nv
1794 North Carolina October 25th and 26th nv Storm or hurricane, 88 mm rain at Madison's estate in Montpelier. While the wind was "lively" there on the morning of the 26th, Annapolis reported that it was "blowing hard, like a hurricane and raining all night".
1795 North Carolina August 2nd nv Heavy rains in the Central Atlantic states, correspondence disrupted, crops destroyed. “A fleet of eighteen Spanish ships sailing from Havana to Spain was wiped out off Cape Hatteras ; an unknown number of these ships were lost. "Annapolis, trees were razed to the ground because" a hurricane was blowing "and the waves were so high" that you couldn't get to the warehouse without a boat. "Ships were driven ashore.
1795 North Carolina August 12th and 13th Additional flooding and crop damage. The damage can be estimated as "moderately estimated as an annual income," said Thomas Jefferson . The "heavy flood rain" caused rivers in Petersburg to rise higher than in the previous 70 years. Annapolis reported "harsh winds" and rains
1796 Bahamas October 2nd and 3rd nv "Delay of ships"
1797 North Carolina 5th September nv a ship sunk
1797 Bahamas , landfall near Charleston , South Carolina October 15-19 nv Many ships and lives have been reported lost.
1799 Jamaica September 23rd 27 The hurricane stayed at sea, but rain, floods, and winds were strong enough to cause casualties.

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