1760-1769 Atlantic hurricane seasons
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The decade of the 1760s featured the 1760-1769 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.
[edit] 1760 Atlantic hurricane season
A minimal hurricane hit Barbuda on October 25, causing fifty deaths.
[edit] 1761 Atlantic hurricane season
A "severe equinoctial storm" lasting four days beginning on September 20 made a breach through the Outer Banks of North Carolina eight miles above its present entrance near haul-over, and it was named New Inlet. This inlet was subsequently closed in 1881, costing $600,000 in that year's dollars.
References: Wilmington District News, US Army Corps of Engineers, Volume 20, Number 6, June 2000, page 3 and also from Wilmington, North Carolina. Past, Present, and Future. History of Its Harbor, with Detailed Reports of the Work for Improving and Restoring the Same, Now Being Conducted by the U.S. Government. Resources and Advantages as an Entrepot for Western Cities. Harbor of Refuge, and Coaling Depot for the Navy and Merchant Marine Wilmington Chamber of Commerce (N.C.) p. 25 Published by Order of the Chamber of Commerce (J. A. Engelhard, Printer) 1872.
[edit] 1762 Atlantic hurricane season
No storms were recorded.
[edit] 1763 Atlantic hurricane season
No storms were recorded.
[edit] 1764 Atlantic hurricane season
No storms were recorded.
[edit] 1765 Atlantic hurricane season
No storms were recorded.
[edit] 1766 Atlantic hurricane season
I. Martinique was hit by a hurricane on August 13. 440 people perished in this storm.
II. On September 4, a hurricane hit Galveston, Texas. Five ships were destroyed, but the crew and items were saved. A Spanish mission named Nuestra Senora De la Luz and the presidio San Augustine de Ahumado on the lower Trinity River was destroyed. Constance Bayou in Louisiana was named after one of the wrecked ships from this storm. [1]
III. St. Christopher, Montserrat, was hit by a hurricane on September 13, destroying half the town and many ships.
IV. Guadeloupe was hit by a hurricane on October 6, sinking twelve slave ships and killing all aboard.
V. Northwest Florida experienced a hurricane on October 23, sinking a ship and killing the entire crew except for three.
[edit] 1767 Atlantic hurricane season
I. In August, a powerful hurricane hit Martinique, resulting in 1600 casualties.
II. On September 21st, a hurricane moved through Coastal North Carolina, causing a number of vessels to be lost. Floods struck Virginia, with a mill entirely destroyed in Warwick county (from the August 6, 1767 Virginia Gazette pg. 2).
[edit] 1768 Atlantic hurricane season
Havana, Cuba was hit by a hurricane on October 15, causing 1000 deaths.
[edit] 1769 Atlantic hurricane season
I. As a hurricane approached coastal North Carolina on September 5, a ship sank, and heavy flooding occurred over the area. Many old houses in eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia were destroyed, particularly around Williamsburg, York, Hampton, and Norfolk due to 13 hours of high winds from the northeast to northwest. The hurricane caused at least six fatalities.
II. On September 25, a hurricane was located off the northeast coast of Florida. It approached the state and may have hit St. Augustine, Florida that day, but it turned northeastward, and hit near Charleston, South Carolina, on the 28th. Damage was minimal in the Carolinas, but crop damage occurred in northeast Florida.
