List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 18th century
The years from 1701 to 1800 presented the 1701-1800 hurricane seasons not represent During each encountered storm data are available, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to give data on hurricane phenomena. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of the formation of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin. Most formations of tropical cyclones occur between June 1 and November 30.
Description of a hurricane
A hurricane that hinwegzog between 28 August and 30 August 1772 the eastern Greater Antilles and Jamaica later met before northwestward pulling wandered through the Gulf of Mexico to Alabama, was of the living at this time on Saint Croix Alexander Hamilton described in a letter to his father:
The letter was reprinted by several newspapers in New York.
Storms
- Pulled on September 11 by the Lesser Antilles.
- Landfall in Louisiana on September 23, with 15 hours of hurricane winds and a 2.5 m high storm wave.
- Many ships in Louisiana missing.
- 2.5 m high storm wave caused flooding in New Orleans, which led the move as a state capital Baton Rouge.
- Three days of rain flood in South Carolina to 27 September.