Significant US Hurricanes 1851-1886...

[Anonymous]

I have taken HURDAT data, and mapquest data to pinpoint the exact landfalls of significant (MAJOR) hurricanes for the United States. For those who live along the Gulf Coast, or East Coast of the US, you may want to check out to see if your town/city has been impacted, the especially bad storms have been marked in bold, although most listed would end up being very costly today:::

Hurricane #4
August 23-24, 1851
Landfall: Panama City, FL
Time: Late evening/midnight timeframe
Category 3 of 120 mph

Hurricane #1
August 26, 1852
Landfall: Pascagoula, MS
Time: Afternoon
Category 3 of 120 mph/961 mb

Hurricane #2
September 8-9, 1854
Landfall: Sparse Georgia Coast, closest town is Thomas Landing.
Time: Late evening/midnight timeframe
Category 3 of 125-130 mph/950 mb

Hurricane #5
September 16, 1855
Landfall: Port Sulphur, LA
Time: Late morning/early afternoon timeframe
Category 3 of 120-130 mph

Hurricane #1
August 10-11, 1856
Landfall: Terrebonne Parish, near Cocodrie, LA
Time: Late evening/midnght timeframe
Category 4 of 150 mph/934 mb
NOTE::: This August storm, increased from 80 mph on the morning of the 9th, to 150 mph by the evening of the 10th. It remained a Category 4 to inland Morgan City, LA. Today, damage would be staggering.

Hurricane #1
August 11-12, 1860
Landfall: Grand Isle, LA
Time: Late evening/midnight timeframe
Category 3 of 130 mph

Hurricane #6
September 8-9, 1869
Landfall: Near Newport, RI
Time: Late evening/midnight timeframe
Category 2-3 of 100-120 mph (It was weakening rapidly)

Hurricane #3
August 17, 1871
Landfall: Just north of Jupiter, FL
Time: Morning/noon timeframe
Category 3 of 120 mph/955-960 mb
Note: This storm is very much like Hurricane Jeanne of 2004

Hurricane #5
October 7, 1873
Landfall: Near Charlotte Harbor, FL
Time: Morning
Category 3 of 120 mph/959 mb
Note: Track was similar to Hurricane Charley of 2004

Hurricane #3
September 16-17, 1875
Landfall: Near Corpus Christi, TX
Time: Late evening/midnight timeframe
Category 3 of 120 mph

Hurricane #4
October 3, 1877
Landfall: Panama City, FL
Time: Morning
Category 3 of 120 mph

Hurricane #2
August 18, 1879
Landfall: Morehead City, NC
Time: Afternoon
Category 3 of 120 mph
Note: This is the first recorded major hurricane for North Carolina since records began in 1851.

Hurricane #4
September 1, 1879
Landfall: East of Morgan City, LA
Time: Afternoon/early evening
Category 3 of 130 mph

Hurricane #2
August 13, 1880
Landfall: Playa Lauro Villar, MX (BUT IT PASSED OVER BROWNSVILLE, TX LATER WITH WINDS OF CATEGORY 4 INTENSITY)
Time: Morning/Afternoon
Category 4 of 150 mph/931
NOTE: THIS WAS AN INDIRECT IMPACT TO TEXAS, YET, IRONIC...CHARLEY WAS ALSO A 150 MPH HURRICANE ON AUGUST 13...

Hurricane #2
September 10, 1882
Landfall: Near Fort Walton Beach, FL
Time: Morning/early afternoon
Category 3 of 120 mph/949 mb

Hurricane #5
August 20, 1886
Landfall: Indianola, TX
Time: Afternoon/evening
Category 4 of 155 mph/925 mb
NOTE::: This was the 4th most intense Hurricane ever to strike the United States, just below the 35' Hurricane, Camille, and Andrew. Damage was horrific, and today, damage would be worse. Storm surge of 15 feet and winds of 155 mph, gusting well into the Category 5 force leveled the town of Indianola, Texas.

1851-1886 Statistics:::

13 major hurricanes
11 Category 3 storms
2 Category 4 storms
0 Category 5 storms
1 Indirect impact in Texas from a Category 4

[Stratosphere747]

Floyd....You may need to go back and change the hurricane #3 of 1875....

This in fact was the first of the great Indianola hurricanes...The town was rebuilt to a lesser extent only to be totally devastated by the 86 one, and completely abandon...