List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 17th century

Atlantic hurricane seasons
Before 1600 1600s 1700s/10s 1720s/30s 1740s/50s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s

While information for every storm that happened is not available, some parts of the coastline had enough people to give info of hurricane happenings. Each season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic basin. Most tropical cyclone formation occurs between June 1 and November 30.

1600–1619

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1600	Offshore Mexico	September 12	60	N/A
1600	Offshore Mexico	September 26	150-250	N/A
1601	Veracruz, Mexico	N/A	1000	N/A
1605	Nicaragua	N/A	1300	N/A
1605	Haiti, Cuba	N/A	N/A	Three ships lost
1609	New England	August 4	32	One ship sunk near Bermuda, inspired Shakespeare to write The Tempest
1615	Mexico	August 30	Crew of ship drowned	One ship sunk; nothing salvageable
1615	Puerto Rico	September 12	Some Deaths	N/A
1616	Puerto Rico	N/A	Many deaths	N/A

1620–1639

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1622	Bahamas, Florida Keys	September 6	1090	Two Spanish ships lost
1623	Cuba, St. Kitts and Nevis	September 9	150-250	The hurricane destroyed the first tobacco crop planted on St. Kitts by the English.^[1]
1626	Puerto Rico	September 15	38	N/A
1631	Gulf of Mexico	October 21	300	N/A
1634	Cuba	October 5	40	N/A
1635	New England	August 24	46+	Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
1638	Saint Kitts	August 5	N/A	Peter Minuit dies on way back to Stockholm, Sweden
1638	New England	August 13	N/A	N/A
1638	South of Puerto Rico	October	N/A	Two British ships lost; two survivors

1640–1659

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1640	Cuba	September 11	N/A	Disrupted Dutch fleet poised to attack Havana, Cuba
1641	Hispaniola, Florida	September 24	Many	12+ ships lost
1642	Hispaniola, Florida	September	Many	Crew in twenty two ships drown
1642	St. Kitts and Nevis	Possibly same storm as above	Unknown	Several ships containing tobacco ran aground and poisoned the water, killing thousands of fish.^[2]
1642	St. Kitts and Nevis
1644	Western Cuba, Florida Keys	October	1500	N/A
1649	Virginia	N/A	N/A	Crop (tobacco) damage
1650	St. Kitts	N/A	28	From two hurricanes
1652	Leeward Islands	September 23	N/A	Three ships and crew missing
1653	Barbados, St. Vincent	July 13	Many	A ship and crew lost
1656	Guadeloupe	N/A	N/A	Every vessel at anchor wrecked
1657	Guadeloupe, Bahamas	N/A	N/A	Two ships sunk

1660–1679

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1664	Guadeloupe	October 22	N/A	Massive crop damage; nearly caused famine
1666	Martinique, Guadeloupe	August 14- 15 August	2000	Two Ships lost
1667	Nevis
1667	St. Christopher, Nevis Virginia	September 1-6	Many people	10,000 houses destroyed, massive crop damage, major flooding, nearly all building on Nevis were "flattened".^[2]
1667	Virginia
1669	Nevis, Cuba, North Carolina	August 17-23	182	N/A
1669	St. Kitts	September	N/A	Twenty five ships lost
1670	Jamaica	October 7	N/A	Drove English fleet of ships ashore
1673	Puerto Rico	N/A	Few	One ship wrecked, all made it safe to shore
1674	Barbados	August 10	200	N/A
1674	St. Augustine, Florida	August 19	N/A	Likely continuation of above, flooding, property and crop damage
1675	Barbados	September 10	200	N/A

1680–1699

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1680	Martinique	August 3	Many	22 Ships lost
1680	Dominican Republic	August 15	Many	25+ Ships lost
1681	St. Kitts and Nevis	September 6	N/A	At least one house blown down.
1681	Western Caribbean Sea	N/A	"Considerable from drowning"	N/A
1681	St. Kitts and Nevis	October 14	N/A	Roof of same house as the September hurricane blown off again. Twenty-five of the thirty or so horses died on a ship owned by two New Englanders, Captain Cushing and Captain Clark off the coast of Nevis.
1683	North Carolina, Connecticut	August 23	N/A	Tremendous flooding
1683	Florida East Coast	N/A	496	N/A
1689	Nevis	N/A	Half the inhabitants of the island	N/A
1692	Jamaica	N/A	100	N/A
1693	Mid-Atlantic states, New England	October 29	N/A	Created new inlets, flooding
1694	Barbados	September 27	1000	N/A
1695	Florida Keys	October 4	N/A	1 ship destroyed
1695	Martinique	October	600	N/A
1696	Western Cuba	N/A	N/A	Heavy flooding, 1 ship lost
1696	Florida East Coast	September 23-4	N/A	Two ships driven ashore^[3]
1696	Florida East Coast	October 3-7	N/A	Jece, chief town of the Ais tribe, flooded by storm surge^[4]

Related pages

List of Atlantic hurricane seasons

References

↑ Hubbard, Vincent K. (1996). Swords, Ships & Sugar: History of Nevis to 1900 (4th ed.). Corvallis, OR: Premiere. ISBN 978-0-9633818-5-9.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Hubbard, Vincent K. (2002). Swords, Ships & Sugar: History of Nevis. Corvallis, Oregon
↑ Andrews, Charles Mclean and Andrews, Evangeline Walker (1945). Jonathan Dickinson's Journal or, God's Protecting Providence. Being the Narrative of a Journey from Port Royal in Jamaica to Philadelphia between August 23, 1696 to April 1, 1697. Yale University Press. Reprinted (1981) Florida Classics Library. Map I. Pp. 5, 28-30.
↑ Andrews and Andrews (1945). Pp. 32-3.

Other websites

[Hubbard-1] Hubbard, Vincent K. (1996). Swords, Ships & Sugar: History of Nevis to 1900 (4th ed.). Corvallis, OR: Premiere. ISBN 978-0-9633818-5-9.

[corvallis-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Hubbard, Vincent K. (2002). Swords, Ships & Sugar: History of Nevis. Corvallis, Oregon

[3] Andrews, Charles Mclean and Andrews, Evangeline Walker (1945). Jonathan Dickinson's Journal or, God's Protecting Providence. Being the Narrative of a Journey from Port Royal in Jamaica to Philadelphia between August 23, 1696 to April 1, 1697. Yale University Press. Reprinted (1981) Florida Classics Library. Map I. Pp. 5, 28-30.

[4] Andrews and Andrews (1945). Pp. 32-3.

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