(br)=brush (ts)=Tropical Storm
(bd)=Back Door,meaning coming from over land from opposite coast.Not all names
are noted,also storms before 1950 were not named.Not every stat on every storm
description is given.
Years
within 60
miles 1872ts,1873tsbr,1875,1876br,1879ts,1880br,1883br,1886ts,1888ts,1889tsbr 1891br,1894,1894br,1896,1899ts,1901ts,1903,1905tsbr,1909br,1909tsbr,1911ts 1916ts,1916br,1918ts,1924ts,1926ts,1931ts,1931tsbr,1941tsbr,1942ts,1945tsbr ,1951,1951ts,1958ts,1963br,1967br,1970ts,1979ts,1979,1981tsbr,1988ts,1993ts,1995ts,1995,2001 tsbr,2007 46
times in 138yrs end of 2008
Names from list
above Dog,Charlie,Ella,Edith,Beulah,Dorothy,Ana,David,Gert,Gilbert,Cindy,Iris,Marilyn ,Jerry,Dean,
How often this area gets
affected? brushed or hit every 3.00 years
Average years between direct hurricane hits. once every 17.25 years (8h)
Statistically when this area should be affected
next before the end of the 2010 season
Last affected by Aug 17th ,2007 Hurricane Dean passes between Martinique & St Lucia with 100mph winds.
This areas hurricane
past 1780 The great Hurricane on Oct 11th sinks 40 ships killing an estimated 5,000 men. 1875 just south 90mph sept 9th 1881 a storm hits the area for 4 hours killing 700 people. 1891 a hurricANE hits with press of 26.85 total
devestation 1903 aug 9th 31 killed aug 9th 90mph 1951 a cat 1 hits in early september moderate damage 1963 hurricane edith hits killing 10 with an 8 ft storm surge
28.38 130mph
1970 tropical storm dorothy hits area killing
42 people. 1979
hurricane david brushes north tip of island as a cat 4 causing heavy damage 500
homes destroyed 80 boats sunk,15 injured. David page
1995 hurricane marilyn a cat 1
causes moderate damage to area
2007,Aug 17th Hurricane Dean passes between Martinique & St Lucia with 100mph winds.roofs blown off, weather officials said that the French island had been recording wind gusts of 87 miles per hour.An elderly man died of a heart attack during the storm and six people were injured. The hurricane destroyed all the banana plantations, which employ 10,000 of Martinique's 400,000 residents, and wiped out 70 percent of the sugarcane farms, said Christian Estrosi, France's secretary of state for overseas territories. The highest storm-total rainfall in Martinique was 13.07 inches at Fort de France-Colson. Caravelle sustained 78mph gusts to 88mph, Sainte-Anne sustained 77mph gusts to 116mph,Fort de France sustained 83mph gusts to 114mph.
Text Sources:The Major Hurricanes to affect the Bahamas Wayne Neely.....Hurricane Watch Dr. Bob Sheets & Jack Williams.....Inside the Hurricane Pete Davies.....The Ship & the Storm Jim Carrier.....Lunatic Wind William Price Fox...Sudden Sea R.A Scotti.....Hurricane Almanac Bryan Norcross.....Divine Wind Kerry Emanuel.....Florida's Hurricane History Jay Barnes.....Stormscaping Pamela Crawford.....Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States Rick Scwartz..... Killer Cane Robert Mykle..... Isaac's Storm Erik Larson.....Florida Hurricanes & Tropical Storms John M. Williams & Iver W.Duedall.....Path of destruction John McQuaid & Mark Schleifstein.....Sun sentinel newspaper(microfilm).....Miami Herald newspaper(microfilm).....NOAA research division.....hurricanecity.com (calculations) Jim Williams.....plus many more.............
Martinique's history with tropical
systems