List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 17th century

The List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 17th century encompasses all known Atlantic tropical cyclones from 1600 to 1699. While data for every storm that occurred is unavailable, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to give data of hurricane occurrences.

Contents 1 1600–1624 2 1625–1649 3 1650–1674 4 1675-1699 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links

1600–1624

Year	Area(s) affected	Date (GC)	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1600	Offshore Mexico	September 12	60	N/A
1600	Offshore Mexico	September 26	150-250	N/A
1601	Veracruz, Mexico	N/A	1000	N/A
1605	Nicaragua	N/A	1300	N/A
1605	Haiti, Cuba	September 29	N/A	Three ships lost, made landfall near Sabana Port
1608	Mexico	September 3	N/A	Made landfall near Veracruz
1609	New England	August 4	32	One ship sunk near Bermuda, inspired Shakespeare to write The Tempest
1615	Mexico	August 30	Crew of ship drowned	One ship sunk; nothing salvageable
1615	Puerto Rico	September 12	Some Deaths	Known as “San Leoncio” hurricane.[1] Caused extensive damage to the San Juan Cathedral, to the agriculture and the sugar crops.
1616	Puerto Rico	N/A	Many deaths	N/A
1622	Bahamas, Florida Keys	September 6	1090	Two Spanish ships lost
1622	Bermuda	September 9	N/A	Possibly identical with the Bahamas Hurricane.
1623	Cuba, St. Kitts and Nevis	September 9	150-250	The hurricane destroyed the first tobacco crop planted on St. Kitts by the English.[2]

1625–1649

Year	Area(s) affected	Date (GC)	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1625	Bahamas	August 11–12	N/A	N/A
1626	Puerto Rico	September 15	38	Known as Tropical Storm “San Nicomedes”, 3 ships were sunk in the bay of San Juan.[1]
1628	Mexico	N/A	N/A	Made landfall near Merida, Mexico
1631	Gulf of Mexico	October 21	300	N/A
1634	Cuba	October 5	40	N/A
1635	New England	August 24	46+	Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
1638	Saint Kitts	August 5	N/A	Peter Minuit dies on way back to Stockholm, Sweden
1638	New England	August 13	N/A	N/A
1638	South of Puerto Rico	October	N/A	Two British ships lost; two survivors
1640	Cuba	September 11	N/A	Disrupted Dutch fleet poised to attack Havana, Cuba
1641	Hispaniola, Florida	September 24	Many	12+ ships lost
1642	Hispaniola, Florida	September	Many	Crew in twenty two ships drown
1642	St. Kitts and Nevis	Possibly same storm as above	Unknown	Several ships containing tobacco ran aground and poisoned the water, killing thousands of fish.[2]
1644	Western Cuba, Florida Keys	October	1500	N/A
1649	Virginia	N/A	N/A	Crop (tobacco) damage

1650–1674

Year	Area(s) affected	Date (GC)	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1650	St. Kitts	N/A	28	From two hurricanes
1652	Leeward Islands	September 23	N/A	Three ships and crew missing
1653	Barbados, St. Vincent	July 13	Many	A ship and crew lost
1656	Guadeloupe	N/A	N/A	Every vessel at anchor wrecked
1657	Guadeloupe, Bahamas	N/A	N/A	Two ships sunk
1664	Guadeloupe	October 22	N/A	Massive crop damage; nearly caused famine
1666	Martinique, Guadeloupe	August 14–15	2000	Two Ships lost
1667	St. Christopher, Nevis, Virginia	September 1–6	Many people	10,000 houses destroyed, massive crop damage, major flooding, nearly all building on Nevis were "flattened".[2]
1669	Nevis, Cuba, North Carolina	August 17–23	182	N/A
1669	St. Kitts	September	N/A	Twenty five ships lost
1670	Jamaica	October 7	N/A	Drove English fleet of ships ashore
1673	Puerto Rico	N/A	Few	One ship wrecked, all made it safe to shore
1674	Barbados	August 10	200	N/A
1674	St. Augustine, Florida	August 19	N/A	Likely continuation of above, flooding, property and crop damage

1675-1699

     – only paleotempestological evidence

Year	Area(s) affected	Date (GC)	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1675	Barbados	September 10	200	N/A
1680	Martinique	August 3	Many	22 Ships lost
1680	Dominican Republic	August 15	Many	25+ Ships lost
1681	St. Kitts and Nevis	September 6	N/A	At least one house blown down.
1681	Western Caribbean Sea	N/A	"Considerable from drowning"	N/A
1681	St. Kitts and Nevis	October 14	N/A	Roof of same house as the September hurricane blown off again. Twenty-five of the thirty or so horses perished on a ship owned by two New Englanders, Captain Cushing and Captain Clark off the coast of Nevis.
1683	North Carolina, Connecticut	August 23	N/A	Tremendous flooding
1683	Florida East Coast	N/A	496	N/A
1689	Nevis	N/A	Half the inhabitants of the island	N/A
1692	Jamaica	N/A	100	N/A
~1692	Belize	N/A	N/A	A major hurricane landfall identified in sediment cores from the Great Blue Hole.[3]
1693	Mid-Atlantic states, New England	October 29	N/A	Created new inlets, flooding. May have had a significant effect on the New York City area, but little historical documentation is available.[4]
1694	Barbados	September 27	1000	N/A
1695	Florida Keys	October 4	N/A	1 ship destroyed
1695	Martinique	October	600	N/A
1696	Western Cuba	N/A	N/A	Heavy flooding, 1 ship lost
1696	Florida East Coast	September 23-4	N/A	Two ships driven ashore[5]
1696	Florida East Coast	October 3–7	N/A	Jece, chief town of the Ais tribe, flooded by storm surge[6]

See also

• List of Atlantic hurricanes
• List of Atlantic hurricane seasons

References

Further reading

• Ludlum, David M. (1963), Early American Hurricanes, 1492-1870, Boston: American Meteorological Society, OCLC 511649 
• Millás, José Carlos (1968), Hurricanes of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, 1492-1800, Miami: Academy of the Arts and Sciences of the Americas, OCLC 339427 

External links

• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdeadlyapp1.shtml
• http://www.candoo.com/genresources/hurricane.htm#1600
• http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/roth/vahur.htm
• http://www.ucm.es/info/tropical/data.htm
• http://huracanado1.tripod.com/history.html