Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Tortola, BVI (TUPJ)

Location: 18.45N 64.53W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.45N, 64.53W) 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 Tortola (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 Tortola and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Tortola 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 21 UNNAMED 7 Jul 1861 58 ts 42 UNNAMED 29 Oct 1867 115 h3 1 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1871 115 h3 2 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1876 115 h3 31 UNNAMED 28 Nov 1878 69 ts 31 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1879 46 ts 52 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1881 69 ts 42 UNNAMED 10 Oct 1887 63 ts 62 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1889 104 h2 4 UNNAMED 2 Oct 1889 58 ts 26 UNNAMED 15 Oct 1891 69 ts 10 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1893 115 h3 63 UNNAMED 13 Oct 1894 98 h2 32 UNNAMED 12 Sep 1898 109 h2 67 UNNAMED 27 Oct 1898 58 ts 63 UNNAMED 9 Sep 1899 121 h3 60 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1901 58 ts 20 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1906 109 h2 49 UNNAMED 10 Sep 1908 69 ts 33 UNNAMED 6 Sep 1910 98 h2 67 UNNAMED 13 Jul 1916 46 ts 69 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1916 109 h2 56 UNNAMED 10 Oct 1916 109 h2 2 UNNAMED 16 Sep 1922 115 h3 37 UNNAMED 19 Aug 1924 46 ts 39 UNNAMED 28 Aug 1924 109 h2 13 UNNAMED 3 Aug 1928 40 ts 33 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1928 161 h5 67 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1931 40 ts 15 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1931 86 h1 3 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1932 144 h4 34 UNNAMED 26 Jul 1933 86 h1 14 UNNAMED 18 Sep 1934 46 ts 56 UNNAMED 8 Aug 1938 63 ts 24 UNNAMED 5 Aug 1940 46 ts 36 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1943 46 ts 4 UNNAMED 17 Oct 1947 46 ts 64 UNNAMED 24 Aug 1949 69 ts 43 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1950 121 h3 60 DOG 15 Sep 1953 52 ts 46 EDNA 5 Sep 1960 127 h3 29 DONNA 26 Aug 1966 86 h1 59 FAITH 18 Jul 1979 40 ts 14 CLAUDETTE 4 Sep 1979 58 ts 26 FREDERIC 4 Sep 1981 40 ts 51 FLOYD 8 Nov 1984 75 h1 37 KLAUS 18 Sep 1989 138 h4 52 HUGO 7 Oct 1990 58 ts 43 KLAUS 6 Sep 1995 132 h4 63 LUIS 16 Sep 1995 109 h2 32 MARILYN 8 Jul 1996 86 h1 1 BERTHA 21 Sep 1998 104 h2 52 GEORGES 21 Oct 1999 75 h1 5 JOSE 18 Nov 1999 150 h4 60 LENNY 22 Aug 2000 75 h1 6 DEBBY 22 Aug 2001 52 ts 20 DEAN 11 Dec 2007 40 ts 4 OLGA 16 Oct 2008 132 h4 43 OMAR 30 Aug 2010 132 h4 44 EARL 21 Aug 2011 69 ts 44 IRENE 11 Sep 2011 58 ts 53 MARIA 14 Oct 2012 52 ts 64 RAFAEL 14 Oct 2014 104 h2 56 GONZALO 6 Sep 2017 178 h5 6 IRMA 28 Aug 2019 81 h1 31 DORIAN 24 Sep 2019 46 ts 44 KAREN

Tortola, BVI: all dec peak 5yr rank

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