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 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 27 Sep 1852 92 h1 4 UNNAMED 23 Sep 1858 69 ts 33 UNNAMED 3 Oct 1859 104 h2 60 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1871 104 h2 13 UNNAMED 1 Aug 1877 58 ts 29 UNNAMED 30 Sep 1878 104 h2 65 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1879 81 h1 4 UNNAMED 18 Nov 1879 69 ts 65 UNNAMED 13 Oct 1884 92 h1 30 UNNAMED 20 May 1887 58 ts 5 UNNAMED 9 Oct 1887 63 ts 19 UNNAMED 29 Nov 1887 81 h1 69 UNNAMED 15 Aug 1888 81 h1 4 UNNAMED 6 Sep 1888 46 ts 28 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1889 69 ts 20 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1891 98 h2 44 UNNAMED 3 Nov 1891 40 ts 46 UNNAMED 19 Aug 1893 121 h3 30 UNNAMED 26 Aug 1893 121 h3 49 UNNAMED 27 Oct 1900 52 ts 11 UNNAMED 16 Oct 1901 58 ts 8 UNNAMED 6 Sep 1906 132 h4 40 UNNAMED 8 Nov 1906 40 ts 23 UNNAMED 28 Aug 1909 40 ts 36 UNNAMED 4 Sep 1916 40 ts 62 UNNAMED 7 Sep 1919 98 h2 54 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1923 75 h1 43 UNNAMED 26 Jul 1926 138 h4 48 UNNAMED 6 Aug 1928 63 ts 67 UNNAMED 16 Sep 1928 155 h4 37 UNNAMED 20 Oct 1931 46 ts 56 UNNAMED 5 Sep 1932 144 h4 35 UNNAMED 10 Nov 1932 121 h3 33 UNNAMED 28 Jul 1933 86 h1 21 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1933 132 h4 4 UNNAMED 5 Sep 1934 58 ts 21 UNNAMED 22 Oct 1934 40 ts 20 UNNAMED 31 Aug 1935 52 ts 10 UNNAMED 27 Aug 1937 40 ts 31 UNNAMED 10 Aug 1939 63 ts 22 UNNAMED 5 Nov 1939 58 ts 23 UNNAMED 7 Aug 1940 52 ts 47 UNNAMED 5 Oct 1941 121 h3 4 UNNAMED 31 Jul 1944 58 ts 48 UNNAMED 26 Aug 1949 104 h2 5 UNNAMED 26 Oct 1952 86 h1 24 FOX 8 Sep 1954 92 h1 18 EDNA 14 Oct 1954 104 h2 33 HAZEL 14 Aug 1956 121 h3 24 BETSY 12 Sep 1956 40 ts 48 ETHEL 1 Nov 1956 40 ts 12 GRETA 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 2 FRANCES 4 Sep 2008 63 ts 62 HANNA 25 Aug 2011 109 h2 52 IRENE 25 Oct 2012 104 h2 64 SANDY 3 Oct 2015 138 h4 0 JOAQUIN 9 Nov 2015 46 ts 7 KATE

San Salvador, Bahamas: all dec peak 5yr rank

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