Great Barbados hurricane

Great Barbados hurricane

Infobox Hurricane
Name=Great Barbados hurricane
Type=hurricane
Year=1831
Basin=Atl
Image location=


Formed=before August 10, 1831
Dissipated=after August 17, 1831
1-min winds=115
Pressure=
Da

Inflated=2
Fatalities=c. 2,500
Areas=Barbados, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Louisiana
Hurricane season=1831 Atlantic hurricane seasonThe Great Barbados hurricane was an intense Category 4 hurricane that left cataclysmic damage across the Caribbean and Louisiana in 1831.

A possible Cape Verde hurricane, the storm slammed into Barbados, leveling the capital of Bridgetown on August 10. Some 1,500 people perished, either drowned by the convert|17|ft|m|abbr=off|lk=off|adj=on storm surge that the hurricane brought or crushed beneath collapsed buildings (including the St. John's Parish Church, Barbados). It produced great damage in Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia, and slightly touched Martinique.

On August 12, it arrived Puerto Rico. Moving past Haiti and Cuba, it nearly destroyed the town of Les Cayes and damaged Santiago de Cuba, and then crossed the entire length of Cuba, passing Havannah at August 14 (Hurricane Georges of 1998 had a similar track). Its estimated Category 4 winds brought ships ashore at Guantanamo Bay, causing mudslides, and resulted in major structural damage.

It turned to the northwest, where it made landfall near Last Island, Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on August 17. There it flooded parts of New Orleans from its convert|7|to|10|ft|m|abbr=off|lk=off|adj=on storm surge in Lake Pontchartrain and also causing hail. The back part of the city of New Orleans was completely inundated. It was simultaneously felt at Pensacola, Florida and Mobile, Alabama, and extended to Natchez, Mississippi convert|300|mi|km|abbr=off|lk=off up the Mississippi river. Its duration was six days from the time it commenced in Barbados and its course cycloidal; the distance passed over by the storm from Barbados to New Orleans is convert|2100|nmi|km|abbr=off|lk=on, and the average rate of its progress fourteen miles an hour.

The Great Barbados Hurricane left 2,500 people dead and $7 million dollars (1831 dollars) in damage. Ludlum (1963) wrote: “It was one of the great hurricanes of the century, or any century …”

Further reading

*cite journal |last=Levy |first=Claude |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1959 |month= |title=Barbados: The Last Years of Slavery 1823-1833 |journal=Journal of Negro History |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=308–345 |doi=10.2307/2716613 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite encyclopedia |last=Longshore |first=David |coauthors= |editor=David Longshore |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones |title=Great Caribbean Hurricane of 1831 |edition= |year=1998 |month= |publisher=Facts on File |volume= |location=New York |isbn=0816033986 |pages=145 |quote=
*cite book |title=Early American Hurricanes: 1492-1870 |last=Ludlum |first=David M. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1963 |publisher=American Meteorological Society |location=Boston |isbn= |pages=140–141


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