Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Grand Turk, TCI (MBGT)

Location: 21.47N 71.14W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (21.47N, 71.14W) 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 Grand Turk (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 Grand Turk and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Grand Turk recently.

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

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 20 Aug 1852 81 h1 10 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1852 92 h1 61 UNNAMED 25 Aug 1856 81 h1 30 UNNAMED 13 Aug 1861 46 ts 38 UNNAMED 1 Oct 1866 127 h3 5 UNNAMED 23 Oct 1870 104 h2 64 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1871 104 h2 36 UNNAMED 24 Sep 1877 46 ts 4 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1879 69 ts 15 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1882 69 ts 8 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1885 46 ts 1 UNNAMED 17 Sep 1886 46 ts 32 UNNAMED 23 Oct 1886 52 ts 4 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1888 104 h2 7 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1891 98 h2 24 UNNAMED 18 Aug 1893 121 h3 12 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1899 69 ts 10 UNNAMED 8 Jul 1901 69 ts 15 UNNAMED 21 Jul 1903 40 ts 50 UNNAMED 5 Sep 1906 132 h4 47 UNNAMED 25 Jul 1926 98 h2 32 UNNAMED 17 Sep 1926 150 h4 18 UNNAMED 5 Aug 1928 46 ts 31 UNNAMED 15 Sep 1928 155 h4 23 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1932 98 h2 51 UNNAMED 27 Jul 1933 86 h1 6 UNNAMED 31 Aug 1933 161 h5 33 UNNAMED 1 Oct 1933 40 ts 6 UNNAMED 27 Nov 1934 58 ts 46 UNNAMED 19 May 1940 40 ts 38 UNNAMED 6 Aug 1940 46 ts 3 UNNAMED 5 Nov 1942 46 ts 60 UNNAMED 14 Jul 1944 40 ts 36 UNNAMED 20 Aug 1945 46 ts 12 UNNAMED 14 Sep 1945 121 h3 18 UNNAMED 7 Sep 1954 69 ts 18 EDNA 13 Sep 1955 81 h1 68 HILDA 17 Oct 1955 58 ts 57 KATIE 13 Aug 1956 115 h3 17 BETSY 7 Sep 1960 138 h4 42 DONNA 18 Sep 1960 46 ts 39 FLORENCE 4 Oct 1961 63 ts 65 FRANCES 28 Sep 1963 46 ts 34 EDITH 9 Sep 1981 40 ts 29 GERT 8 Oct 1985 52 ts 17 ISABEL 18 Nov 1985 92 h1 4 KATE 8 Oct 1990 52 ts 62 KLAUS 9 Jul 1996 104 h2 60 BERTHA 12 Sep 1996 115 h3 34 HORTENSE 11 Oct 2003 46 ts 8 MINDY 1 Sep 2004 138 h4 40 FRANCES 3 Sep 2008 58 ts 43 HANNA 7 Sep 2008 132 h4 23 IKE 6 Nov 2010 69 ts 33 TOMAS 23 Aug 2011 92 h1 50 IRENE 3 Aug 2014 46 ts 24 BERTHA 7 Sep 2017 167 h5 37 IRMA 22 Sep 2017 127 h3 28 MARIA

Grand Turk, TCI: all dec peak 5yr rank

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