Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

San Salvador, Bahamas (MYSM)

Location: 24.05N 74.53W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (24.05N,74.53W) 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 San Salvador (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 San Salvador and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by San Salvador recently.

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

1851 - 2007

date wind cat. cpoa name 27 Sep 1852 92 h1 4 NOTNAMED 23 Sep 1858 69 ts 33 NOTNAMED 3 Oct 1859 104 h2 60 NOTNAMED 28 Oct 1866 92 h1 35 NOTNAMED 23 Aug 1871 104 h2 13 NOTNAMED 1 Aug 1877 58 ts 29 NOTNAMED 30 Sep 1878 104 h2 65 NOTNAMED 16 Aug 1879 81 h1 4 NOTNAMED 18 Nov 1879 69 ts 65 NOTNAMED 13 Oct 1884 92 h1 30 NOTNAMED 20 May 1887 58 ts 5 NOTNAMED 9 Oct 1887 63 ts 19 NOTNAMED 29 Nov 1887 81 h1 69 NOTNAMED 15 Aug 1888 81 h1 4 NOTNAMED 6 Sep 1888 46 ts 28 NOTNAMED 22 Aug 1889 69 ts 20 NOTNAMED 23 Aug 1891 98 h2 44 NOTNAMED 3 Nov 1891 40 ts 46 NOTNAMED 19 Aug 1893 121 h3 30 NOTNAMED 26 Aug 1893 121 h3 49 NOTNAMED 27 Oct 1900 52 ts 11 NOTNAMED 16 Oct 1901 58 ts 8 NOTNAMED 6 Sep 1906 132 h4 40 NOTNAMED 8 Nov 1906 40 ts 23 NOTNAMED 28 Aug 1909 40 ts 36 NOTNAMED 4 Sep 1916 40 ts 62 NOTNAMED 7 Sep 1919 98 h2 54 NOTNAMED 26 Sep 1923 92 h1 16 NOTNAMED 26 Jul 1926 138 h4 52 NOTNAMED 17 Sep 1926 144 h4 62 NOTNAMED 1 Oct 1927 40 ts 22 NOTNAMED 16 Sep 1928 155 h5 41 NOTNAMED 20 Oct 1931 40 ts 8 NOTNAMED 5 Sep 1932 150 h4 7 NOTNAMED 10 Nov 1932 121 h3 8 NOTNAMED 28 Jul 1933 92 h1 12 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1933 138 h4 27 NOTNAMED 22 Oct 1934 40 ts 4 NOTNAMED 1 Sep 1935 69 ts 19 NOTNAMED 27 Jul 1936 40 ts 22 NOTNAMED 3 Aug 1937 40 ts 54 NOTNAMED 27 Aug 1937 40 ts 34 NOTNAMED 10 Aug 1939 63 ts 22 NOTNAMED 7 Aug 1940 63 ts 38 NOTNAMED 5 Oct 1941 104 h2 13 NOTNAMED 31 Jul 1944 63 ts 63 NOTNAMED 26 Aug 1949 98 h2 12 NOTNAMED 25 Sep 1952 81 h1 55 CHARLIE 26 Oct 1952 109 h2 24 FOX 11 Aug 1953 52 ts 3 BARBARA 8 Sep 1954 86 h1 29 EDNA 14 Oct 1954 115 h3 35 HAZEL 14 Aug 1956 109 h2 19 BETSY 6 Sep 1956 40 ts 55 CARLA 17 Aug 1960 40 ts 56 CLEO 10 Sep 1981 81 h1 4 GERT 6 Nov 1981 52 ts 32 KATRINA 1 Aug 1995 81 h1 39 ERIN 10 Jul 1996 92 h1 45 BERTHA 19 Oct 1996 115 h3 8 LILI 26 Aug 1999 81 h1 41 DENNIS 14 Sep 1999 132 h4 40 FLOYD 2 Sep 2004 138 h4 7 FRANCES

San Salvador, Bahamas: all dec peak 5yr rank

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