1720-1739 Atlantic hurricane seasons

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The decades of the 1720s and 1730s featured the 1720-1739 Atlantic hurricane seasons. While data for every storm that occurred is unavailable, 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] Storms

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1720	Puerto Rico	N/A	500	N/A
1722	Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Carolinas	August 28 - 3 September	280	N/A
1722	Jamaica, Louisiana, South Carolina	10 September - 28 September	400	* Moved through Lesser Antilles 11 September. * Landfall in Louisiana on 23 September with 15 hours of hurricane winds and an 8-foot storm surge * Many ships lost in Louisiana * Eight-foot storm surge caused flooding in New Orleans, leading to removal of territorial capital to Baton Rouge * Three days of flooding rains in South Carolina around 27 September.
1723	Massachusetts	February 23-February 24	0
1724	Chesapeake Bay	August 23	N/A	Severe crop damage, one ship lost
1724	Hispaniola	September 12	121	N/A
1726	Jamaica	November 2	18+	N/A
1728	Carolinas	August	N/A	N/A
1730	Jamaica	September 1	N/A	One ship, including the ex-president of Panama, lost.
1731	Windward Passage	June 24	1+	two ships destroyed
1733	St. Kitts	June 30	Several	At least one ship wrecked
1733	Bahamas, Florida Keys	July 15	56	N/A
1737	Dominican Republic	September 9	Several people drowned	Many ships destroyed

[edit] See also

• List of Atlantic hurricanes
• List of Atlantic hurricane seasons

[edit] External links

• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdeadlyapp1.shtml
• http://www.candoo.com/genresources/hurricane.htm#1700
• http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/roth/vahur.htm
• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/research/la18hu.htm
• http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/057/mwr-057-08-0328b.pdf