Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

St.Thomas, USVI (KSTT)

Location: 18.33N 64.98W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.33N, 64.98W) 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.Thomas (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.Thomas and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by St.Thomas recently.

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

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 5 Sep 1852 81 h1 63 UNNAMED 24 Sep 1852 81 h1 37 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1859 81 h1 68 UNNAMED 8 Jul 1861 58 ts 69 UNNAMED 29 Oct 1867 115 h3 4 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1871 115 h3 24 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1876 115 h3 21 UNNAMED 28 Nov 1878 69 ts 23 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1879 46 ts 60 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1881 69 ts 59 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1889 104 h2 20 UNNAMED 2 Oct 1889 58 ts 55 UNNAMED 15 Oct 1891 69 ts 20 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1893 115 h3 44 UNNAMED 13 Oct 1894 98 h2 2 UNNAMED 28 Oct 1898 58 ts 58 UNNAMED 8 Aug 1899 144 h4 54 UNNAMED 31 Aug 1900 52 ts 68 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1901 58 ts 5 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1906 109 h2 68 UNNAMED 10 Sep 1908 69 ts 45 UNNAMED 6 Sep 1910 98 h2 57 UNNAMED 13 Jul 1916 52 ts 42 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1916 109 h2 39 UNNAMED 10 Oct 1916 109 h2 32 UNNAMED 17 Sep 1922 115 h3 59 UNNAMED 19 Aug 1924 46 ts 10 UNNAMED 29 Aug 1924 109 h2 12 UNNAMED 3 Aug 1928 40 ts 45 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1928 161 h5 46 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1931 40 ts 9 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1931 86 h1 9 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1932 144 h4 23 UNNAMED 26 Jul 1933 86 h1 7 UNNAMED 8 Aug 1938 63 ts 42 UNNAMED 5 Aug 1940 46 ts 40 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1943 46 ts 27 UNNAMED 24 Aug 1949 69 ts 63 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1949 46 ts 30 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1950 46 ts 63 BAKER 12 Aug 1956 98 h2 56 BETSY 5 Sep 1960 127 h3 51 DONNA 16 Sep 1975 40 ts 40 ELOISE 4 Sep 1979 52 ts 16 FREDERIC 8 Sep 1981 58 ts 46 GERT 7 Nov 1984 69 ts 19 KLAUS 18 Sep 1989 138 h4 28 HUGO 7 Oct 1990 46 ts 59 KLAUS 16 Sep 1995 109 h2 4 MARILYN 8 Jul 1996 86 h1 19 BERTHA 21 Sep 1998 115 h3 34 GEORGES 21 Oct 1999 69 ts 17 JOSE 17 Nov 1999 155 h4 64 LENNY 22 Aug 2000 75 h1 23 DEBBY 22 Aug 2001 58 ts 4 DEAN 15 Sep 2004 69 ts 57 JEANNE 11 Dec 2007 40 ts 6 OLGA 16 Oct 2008 132 h4 60 OMAR 30 Aug 2010 132 h4 65 EARL 22 Aug 2011 75 h1 29 IRENE 6 Sep 2017 178 h5 24 IRMA 20 Sep 2017 161 h5 48 MARIA 29 Aug 2019 86 h1 3 DORIAN 24 Sep 2019 46 ts 18 KAREN

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

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