Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

St.Croix, USVI (KSTX)

Location: 17.70N 64.80W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (17.70N,64.80W) might not be the center of the island. Often the location of the island weather station was used, which is normally at the airport.
Please note that not only hurricanes (h1-h5) are included but also tropical storms (ts). Wind/category reported is maximum measured while the system moved through region (box). Each category storm has its own color (see color bar below; ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc., see the guide for definitions). Different projections can be selected, the island projections are most zoomed in (select if you want to see how close the systems passed by the island [not available for regions]), while the world projection most zoomed out (select when you want to see the complete path of the storm). Winds are in miles per hour. It is also calculated how close the center of the storm came to the island, the so-called closest point of approach (cpoa, in miles).

Below you can see all stormtracks since 1851 for St.Croix (for more details about individual storms skip to another page where storms are separated per decade). In the climatology section there is also a weekly analysis of the data which shows when the real peak of hurricane season is for St.Croix and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by St.Croix recently.

Projection: Island | Caribbean | Atlantic | World |
[ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc.]

1851 - 2007

date wind cat. cpoa name 18 Aug 1851 92 h1 47 NOTNAMED 5 Sep 1852 81 h1 27 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1859 81 h1 24 NOTNAMED 29 Oct 1867 115 h3 48 NOTNAMED 21 Aug 1871 115 h3 56 NOTNAMED 13 Sep 1876 115 h3 22 NOTNAMED 28 Nov 1878 69 ts 21 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1889 104 h2 48 NOTNAMED 2 Oct 1889 58 ts 68 NOTNAMED 14 Oct 1891 63 ts 25 NOTNAMED 16 Aug 1893 115 h3 9 NOTNAMED 13 Oct 1894 98 h2 9 NOTNAMED 31 Aug 1896 98 h2 56 NOTNAMED 23 Sep 1896 46 ts 68 NOTNAMED 28 Oct 1898 58 ts 14 NOTNAMED 8 Aug 1899 144 h4 19 NOTNAMED 31 Aug 1900 52 ts 27 NOTNAMED 11 Sep 1901 58 ts 34 NOTNAMED 22 Aug 1909 92 h1 39 NOTNAMED 6 Sep 1910 98 h2 14 NOTNAMED 13 Jul 1916 46 ts 19 NOTNAMED 22 Aug 1916 109 h2 2 NOTNAMED 9 Oct 1916 109 h2 24 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1919 40 ts 39 NOTNAMED 18 Aug 1924 46 ts 9 NOTNAMED 13 Sep 1928 161 h5 16 NOTNAMED 2 Sep 1930 109 h2 52 NOTNAMED 17 Aug 1931 40 ts 35 NOTNAMED 10 Sep 1931 98 h2 39 NOTNAMED 27 Sep 1932 109 h2 34 NOTNAMED 14 Jul 1933 40 ts 22 NOTNAMED 26 Jul 1933 69 ts 66 NOTNAMED 28 Sep 1933 46 ts 0 NOTNAMED 8 Aug 1938 63 ts 46 NOTNAMED 5 Nov 1942 40 ts 24 NOTNAMED 17 Oct 1947 58 ts 68 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1949 40 ts 50 NOTNAMED 23 Aug 1950 58 ts 30 BAKER 12 Aug 1956 92 h1 26 BETSY 19 Aug 1959 40 ts 34 EDITH 18 Jul 1979 40 ts 39 CLAUDETTE 4 Sep 1979 58 ts 27 FREDERIC 8 Sep 1981 58 ts 18 GERT 7 Nov 1984 58 ts 59 KLAUS 18 Sep 1989 150 h4 1 HUGO 16 Sep 1995 109 h2 14 MARILYN 8 Jul 1996 86 h1 54 BERTHA 21 Sep 1998 104 h2 3 GEORGES 21 Oct 1999 75 h1 51 JOSE 17 Nov 1999 155 h5 19 LENNY 22 Aug 2000 75 h1 56 DEBBY 22 Aug 2001 52 ts 31 DEAN 15 Sep 2004 69 ts 28 JEANNE 11 Dec 2007 40 ts 48 OLGA

St.Croix, USVI: all dec peak 5yr rank

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