1820–1829 Atlantic hurricane seasons

The decade of the 1820s featured the 1820–1829 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 formation occurs between June 1 and November 30.

1820 Atlantic hurricane season

I. A minimal hurricane moved from Florida on September 8 northward to hit near the border of North Carolina and South Carolina on September 10. It caused only minor damage.

II. A hurricane was sighted at Dominica on September 26 before moving west-northwest through Hispaniola, then across the southwest Atlantic to South Carolina on October 1. ^[1]

1821 Atlantic hurricane season

I. A tropical storm moved westward across the Caribbean, from Guadeloupe on September 1 to western Cuba on September 9.

II. Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane

Main article: 1821 Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane

The Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane was a deadly hurricane that rapidly moved up the Atlantic coast during the first few days of September. It included a hurricane landfall within the modern borders of New York City, the only recorded case of a hurricane eyewall moving directly over the city. It caused 200 deaths, and is estimated to have been a Category 4 hurricane.

III. Later in September, from the 15th-17th, a strong hurricane hit Mississippi. This was a very large storm, bringing storm surge flooding from Mobile to what is now Wakulla and Taylor Counties, Florida. 11 of the 13 vessels in the harbor at Pensacola Bay were lost, causing 35 deaths.^[1]

1822 Atlantic hurricane season

I. A hurricane struck the central Gulf coast between July 7 and July 9.

II. This hurricane moved north-northwest from the Bahamas on September 25 to hit Charleston, South Carolina on September 27. It claimed the lives of hundreds of slaves who found themselves trapped in the low-lying Santee Delta, miles from higher ground and with no shelter. It caused 300 (or more deaths), but managed to break a drought in the Richmond area.

III. From October 20 to the 22nd, a hurricane hit Virginia, causing heavy damage and winds in the Richmond area.

IV. A rare December hurricane moved through the eastern Caribbean Sea and eventually into Venezuela between December 13 and December 22.^[1]

1823 Atlantic hurricane season

I. A tropical storm moved from Curaçao on July 8 to near Jamaica on July 10.

II. A tropical storm moved south of Jamaica on August 2 and August 3.

III. A hurricane which formed in the west-central Gulf of Mexico on September 11 moved slowly northeast, striking the central Gulf coast on September 14. ^[1]

1824 Atlantic hurricane season

I. A severe hurricane was sighted at Guadeloupe on September 7 and moved across the northeast Lesser Antilles and the southwest Atlantic to hit Georgia and South Carolina on September 14, causing 100 deaths. It washed out all bridges between Darien and Savannah. Moving northward, it hit Savannah and South Carolina before going out to sea. Because hurricanes were somewhat frequent, residents were used to evacuating the area. Those who did not evacuate saw the destruction caused by this strong hurricane. This is likely one of the strongest hurricanes to hit Georgia in its history.

II. Between September 26 and September 27, a tropical storm moved south of Jamaica.^[1]

1825 Atlantic hurricane season

I. A tropical storm formed south of Santo Domingo on May 28. It moved across Cuba on the 1st, and while moving across Florida it caused heavy winds. When it reached the western Atlantic it rapidly strengthened, hitting Charleston as a hurricane, but it lost strength over the northwestern Atlantic ocean.

II. On July 6, a moderate hurricane hit Puerto Rico, destroying 6 villages.

III. Santa Ana hurricane

Two weeks later, on July 26, a powerful hurricane hit near Guadeloupe. It continued west-northwestward to hit Puerto Rico, causing 1,300 deaths, before tracking to the west of Bermuda by August 2. The Santa Ana hurricane may have been one of the most intense cyclones to strike Puerto Rico in the last few hundred years.^[2] No atmospheric pressure readings are available from Puerto Rico, however, a minimum pressure of 918 mbar (27.1 inHg) in Guadeloupe indicates that the storm was a category 5 hurricane (there are no officially observed Category 5 hurricanes before 1924).^[3]

IV. A hurricane struck Haiti on September 28 and moved northwestward into northeast Florida by October 3.^[1]

V. On November 17–18, the schooner Harvest was wrecked on the North Carolina coast, probably near Nags Head, and five or more persons killed in what may have been a late season hurricane.

1826 Atlantic hurricane season

I. A hurricane hit the Cayman Islands and western Cuba on August 27, causing 33 deaths.

II. A tropical storm spotted near Dominica on August 31 moved west-northwest to Jamaica before moving northward to the Grand Banks by September 10.^[1]

1827 Atlantic hurricane season

I. A hurricane struck Antigua on August 17 and moved westward to Jamaica before continuing westward to Vera Cruz, Mexico.

II. A hurricane formed over the Windward Islands on August 18. It moved northwest through the Bahamas on the 21st, and hit Cape Hatteras on August 24.^[4] It moved up the Chesapeake Bay, causing higher than normal tides, and eventually through New England by August 27. This is known as the St. Kitts Hurricane.

III. A hurricane struck Belize City on August 19, 1827, and “drove all ships on shore at Belize.”^[5] It has been identified as ‘Event 5’ in Belizean sedimentary records by McCloskey and Keller.^[6]

IV. This hurricane moved through the northern Leeward Islands a week after the last storm on August 27 before continuing westward into the eastern Gulf of Mexico, recurving northward to strike northwest Florida by September 5.

V. A tropical storm moved through the southwest Atlantic between the West Indies and Bermuda from August 29 to September 8.^[1]

1828 Atlantic hurricane season

A hurricane moved from the northern Lesser Antilles on September 15 northward by Bermuda on September 19, where it caused a "severe gale" and sank 3 ships, before moving into the north Atlantic shipping lanes.^[1]

1829 Atlantic hurricane season

I. A tropical storm moved through the Gulf of Mexico between July 9 and July 13.

II. A strong tropical storm moved through South Carolina and the Outer Banks of North Carolina before moving northwest of Bermuda during the last week of August.^[1]

III. On September 10, a hurricane hit the mouth of the Rio Grande. Port Isabel and Brazos Santiago saw great destruction, while other towns had higher than normal tides.

IV. A hurricane hit Saint Barthemelow on October 26, possibly sinking one ship.

See also

Tropical cyclones portal

• List of tropical cyclones
• List of Atlantic hurricane seasons

References

World Wide Web

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Revised Chronology
2. ^ Donnelly, J. P. (2005). "Evidence of Past Intense Tropical Cyclones from Backbarrier Salt Pond Sediments: A Case Study from Isla de Culebrita, Puerto Rico, USA". Journal of Coastal Research SI42: 201–210. http://www.whoi.edu/science/GG/coastal/publications/pdfs/Donnelly%20JCR%202005-Hurricane.pdf. 
3. ^ Solá, Edwin Miner (1995). Historia de los huracanes en Puerto Rico. San Juan: Solá. ISBN 0-9633435-1-3. 
4. ^ Hairr, John (2008). The Great Hurricanes of North Carolina. Charleston, SC: History Press. pp. 49–54. ISBN 978-1-59629-391-5. 
5. ^ Smith, T. (1842). "The East Coast of Yucatan". The Nautical Magazine 11: 334–338. 
6. ^ McCloskey, T. A.; Keller, G. (2009). "5000 year sedimentary record of hurricane strikes on the central coast of Belize". Quaternary International 195 (1–2): 53–68. Bibcode 2009QuInt.195...53M. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2008.03.003. 

Books

Terry Tucker. Beware the Hurricane! The Story of the Gyratory Tropical Storms That Have Struck Bermuda. Bermuda: Hamilton Press, 1966, p. 87-89.

External links

• http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=90814
• http://www.lbi.net/rlw/hurrican.asp
• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdeadlyapp1.shtml
• http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/roth/vaerly19hur.htm
• http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/txhur.pdf
• http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/lahur.pdf
• http://www.candoo.com/genresources/hurricane.htm