Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Virgin Gorda, BVI (TUVG)

Location: 18.49N 64.39W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.49N, 64.39W) 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 Virgin Gorda (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 Virgin Gorda and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Virgin Gorda 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 16 UNNAMED 7 Jul 1861 58 ts 33 UNNAMED 29 Oct 1867 115 h3 2 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1871 115 h3 5 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1876 115 h3 34 UNNAMED 28 Nov 1878 69 ts 34 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1879 46 ts 48 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1881 69 ts 37 UNNAMED 10 Oct 1887 63 ts 58 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1889 104 h2 12 UNNAMED 2 Oct 1889 58 ts 16 UNNAMED 15 Oct 1891 69 ts 20 UNNAMED 13 Oct 1894 98 h2 42 UNNAMED 12 Sep 1898 109 h2 57 UNNAMED 27 Oct 1898 58 ts 65 UNNAMED 9 Sep 1899 121 h3 53 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1901 58 ts 25 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1906 109 h2 42 UNNAMED 10 Sep 1908 69 ts 28 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1916 109 h2 61 UNNAMED 10 Oct 1916 109 h2 8 UNNAMED 16 Sep 1922 115 h3 29 UNNAMED 19 Aug 1924 46 ts 48 UNNAMED 28 Aug 1924 109 h2 21 UNNAMED 3 Aug 1928 40 ts 29 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1931 40 ts 22 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1931 86 h1 6 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1932 144 h4 38 UNNAMED 26 Jul 1933 86 h1 21 UNNAMED 18 Sep 1934 46 ts 50 UNNAMED 8 Aug 1938 69 ts 17 UNNAMED 5 Aug 1940 46 ts 39 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1943 46 ts 1 UNNAMED 19 Aug 1945 58 ts 65 UNNAMED 17 Oct 1947 46 ts 59 UNNAMED 24 Aug 1949 69 ts 37 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1950 121 h3 51 DOG 15 Sep 1953 52 ts 38 EDNA 5 Sep 1960 127 h3 22 DONNA 26 Aug 1966 86 h1 52 FAITH 18 Jul 1979 40 ts 17 CLAUDETTE 4 Sep 1979 58 ts 29 FREDERIC 4 Sep 1981 40 ts 43 FLOYD 8 Nov 1984 75 h1 42 KLAUS 18 Sep 1989 138 h4 60 HUGO 7 Oct 1990 58 ts 38 KLAUS 6 Sep 1995 132 h4 55 LUIS 16 Sep 1995 109 h2 41 MARILYN 8 Jul 1996 86 h1 7 BERTHA 21 Aug 1998 58 ts 65 BONNIE 21 Sep 1998 104 h2 57 GEORGES 21 Oct 1999 75 h1 11 JOSE 18 Nov 1999 150 h4 57 LENNY 22 Aug 2000 75 h1 0 DEBBY 22 Aug 2001 52 ts 28 DEAN 11 Dec 2007 40 ts 8 OLGA 16 Oct 2008 132 h4 38 OMAR 30 Aug 2010 132 h4 37 EARL 21 Aug 2011 69 ts 49 IRENE 11 Sep 2011 58 ts 46 MARIA 14 Oct 2012 52 ts 54 RAFAEL 14 Oct 2014 104 h2 47 GONZALO 6 Sep 2017 178 h5 0 IRMA 28 Aug 2019 81 h1 40 DORIAN 24 Sep 2019 46 ts 53 KAREN

Virgin Gorda, BVI: all dec peak 5yr rank

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