Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

St.John, USVI (KSSJ)

Location: 18.35N 64.73W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.35N, 64.73W) 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.John (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.John and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by St.John recently.

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

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 23 Sep 1852 81 h1 31 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1859 81 h1 68 UNNAMED 7 Jul 1861 58 ts 56 UNNAMED 29 Oct 1867 115 h3 4 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1871 115 h3 15 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1876 115 h3 23 UNNAMED 28 Nov 1878 69 ts 24 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1879 46 ts 58 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1881 69 ts 52 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1889 104 h2 9 UNNAMED 2 Oct 1889 58 ts 40 UNNAMED 15 Oct 1891 69 ts 4 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1893 115 h3 52 UNNAMED 13 Oct 1894 98 h2 17 UNNAMED 27 Oct 1898 58 ts 58 UNNAMED 8 Aug 1899 144 h4 62 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1901 58 ts 10 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1906 109 h2 60 UNNAMED 10 Sep 1908 69 ts 41 UNNAMED 6 Sep 1910 98 h2 59 UNNAMED 13 Jul 1916 46 ts 55 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1916 109 h2 45 UNNAMED 10 Oct 1916 109 h2 15 UNNAMED 16 Sep 1922 115 h3 49 UNNAMED 19 Aug 1924 46 ts 24 UNNAMED 28 Aug 1924 109 h2 1 UNNAMED 3 Aug 1928 40 ts 42 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1928 161 h5 55 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1931 40 ts 2 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1931 86 h1 6 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1932 144 h4 26 UNNAMED 26 Jul 1933 86 h1 2 UNNAMED 19 Sep 1934 46 ts 67 UNNAMED 8 Aug 1938 63 ts 37 UNNAMED 5 Aug 1940 46 ts 38 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1943 46 ts 17 UNNAMED 24 Aug 1949 69 ts 55 UNNAMED 15 Sep 1953 52 ts 59 EDNA 12 Aug 1956 98 h2 66 BETSY 5 Sep 1960 127 h3 42 DONNA 16 Sep 1975 40 ts 37 ELOISE 18 Jul 1979 40 ts 6 CLAUDETTE 4 Sep 1979 58 ts 18 FREDERIC 4 Sep 1981 40 ts 64 FLOYD 8 Sep 1981 58 ts 57 GERT 7 Nov 1984 69 ts 31 KLAUS 18 Sep 1989 138 h4 39 HUGO 7 Oct 1990 58 ts 53 KLAUS 16 Sep 1995 109 h2 18 MARILYN 8 Jul 1996 86 h1 11 BERTHA 21 Sep 1998 104 h2 41 GEORGES 21 Oct 1999 75 h1 7 JOSE 17 Nov 1999 155 h4 60 LENNY 22 Aug 2000 75 h1 16 DEBBY 22 Aug 2001 52 ts 7 DEAN 15 Sep 2004 69 ts 68 JEANNE 11 Dec 2007 40 ts 4 OLGA 16 Oct 2008 132 h4 49 OMAR 30 Aug 2010 132 h4 56 EARL 21 Aug 2011 69 ts 34 IRENE 11 Sep 2011 58 ts 66 MARIA 6 Sep 2017 178 h5 17 IRMA 20 Sep 2017 161 h5 57 MARIA 29 Aug 2019 86 h1 17 DORIAN 24 Sep 2019 46 ts 33 KAREN

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

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