1932 Cuba hurricane
The Cuban hurricane of 1932 or Hurricane Ten was a powerful tropical cyclone later during the Atlantic hurricane season in 1932. It was the tenth tropical storm, fifth hurricane, while the fourth severe hurricane of 1932 in the Atlantic basin. These were one of the strongest ever observed in November hurricanes that devastated the east of Cuba and the Cayman Islands, where at least 3103 people were killed, one of the highest numbers of victims of Atlantic hurricanes in the 20th century.
Storm History
The storm was first observed on 30 October about 320 kilometers east of Guadeloupe as a weak tropical storm. About the Leeward Islands, the system moved on October 31, even across a tropical storm. On November 1, the storm intensified to hurricane and turned in the eastern Caribbean Sea on a southwestern path. He intensified steadily and slowed its forward speed. On November the storm center moved only about 80 km north of Punta Gallinas, Colombia with a thickness over, which corresponds to category 2 on the then non-existing Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale today. Around this time turned the direction of pull back to west.
During the hurricane slowly aspired to the southern Caribbean to the west, he intensified continuously and were with winds of 185 km / h in the afternoon of the 5th of November to a major hurricane. On the same day an air pressure of 918 mbar (hPa ) was measured by a ship east of Central America and south of Cuba, at which time, the storm may have been stronger than the official peak wind speed of 280 km / h On the morning of November 6 the steamship San Simeon reported a barometric pressure of 964 mbar ( hPa), as it was located just north of the hurricane center. At this time the hurricane slowly withdrawing a curve to the north began over the western Caribbean pursue. The storm intensified again on November 8, when he approached the Cayman Islands and is now on the north-eastern course was a Category 4 hurricane.
Early on November 9, moved the center of Cayman Brac past with wind speeds of at least 215 km / h. This morning, the hurricane hit near Santa Cruz del Sur in eastern Cuba with full force on land, at least in the category 4 Within hours of the hurricane crossed the island and arrived in the afternoon near Nuevitas back over water, where he was at this time with continuous wind speeds of 205 km / h still a strong Category 3 hurricane.
The storm accelerated its forward velocity and moved in a northeasterly direction toward the open Atlantic, where it weakened steadily. On November 12, he moved near Bermuda as Category 1 hurricane over, from Bermuda persistent wind speeds of 142 km / h were reported. Slowly weakening the storm moved toward the North Atlantic and became extratropical south of Newfoundland on November 13. There he was absorbed shortly afterwards by a larger extratropical disturbance.
Effects
From Venezuela and Colombia, where the hurricane had passed north, less damage were reported, and Jamaica was quite moderate this, although there were significant losses in banana trees in some communities. Providencia in Colombia showed substantial damage to agriculture and about 36 houses were destroyed by waves.
The storm devastated the Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac in particular, what was literally leveled by the storm surge. The flood reached a level which was reportedly ten feet above the normal value. Many homes and buildings were washed by the waves in the lake, and many residents had to climb trees to escape the floods. On the island group 70 residents died, all but one of them on Cayman Brac. Due to the hurricane, the ship sank Balboa.
The most difficult were the damages to Cuba. The city of Santa Cruz del Sur in the province of Camagüey was flooded by the high surf, the water reached 6.5 meters above the sea level. Few buildings remained standing in the field. Alone in this coastal town lost 2870 people through the storm their lives and died in Cuba in total 3033 persons. The damage was then estimated at $ 40 million U.S. dollars ( 1932).
Weather Records
In the database, HURDAT the National Hurricane Center, the storm is passed as a lightweight category 4 hurricane, for which no air pressure is indicated. For several years, the NHC is carrying out for all hurricanes since 1900 Nachanalysen and according to these calculations, the storm is likely to wind speeds of 260 km / h when he arrived in eastern Cuba over land and the air pressure amounted to 918 mbar ( hPa). If these calculations prove to be correct, would be the Cuba Hurricane of 1932, the latest Category 5 hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin. He would then beat in 1961: six days Hurricane Hattie of the Atlantic hurricane season and was also the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic in November at all, a whole piece before Hurricane Lenny with 933 mbar ( hPa). Such a scale-up would make the hurricane season in 1932 with the first of five in total, in which five storms reached the highest level of the Saffir -Simpson Hurricane Scale (next in 1960, 1961, 2005 and 2007 ); they would also be the first season in which several storms in this strength came over land - previously this was only the case in the 2007 season.
Hurricane Paloma came on the same day of the year exactly 76 years later at the same location over land. Paloma was a rare Category 4 hurricane in November.