Pre-1600 Atlantic hurricane seasons

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The pre-1600 Atlantic hurricane seasons encompasses all known Atlantic tropical cyclones prior to 1600. While data for every storm that occurred is unavailable, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to give data of hurricane occurrences. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic basin. Most tropical cyclone formation occurs between June 1 and November 30.

Data for years before 1492 is completely unavailable because record keeping was virtually non-existent in the pre-Columbian era, and any records that may have once existed have long since been lost. However, studies of sediment deposits in Florida have revealed that a very strong series of hurricanes struck the region thousands of years ago. Even data from the early years of the Columbian era is suspect and incomplete because the distinction between a hurricane and an extratropical system was not drawn by Renaissance scientists and sailors and because European exploration and colonization of the regions affected by hurricanes did not begin in earnest until the mid-16th century.

Contents 1 Storms 1.1 Pre-1525 1.2 1525-1549 1.3 1550-1574 1.4 1575-1599 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Storms

[edit] Pre-1525

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1494	Hispaniola	June 16	N/A	Possible hurricane; could have been the first hurricane in the Western Hemisphere observed and reported by Europeans.
1495	West Indies	N/A	N/A	3 ships sunk, earliest definite report of a hurricane, came from Christopher Columbus; "Nothing but the service of God and the extension of monarchy would expose me to such danger"
1500	Bahamas	July	N/A	2 ships destroyed
1502	Hispaniola	July 1	N/A	20 ships, all on board perish
1502	Offshore Dominican Republic	11 July	500	N/A
1502	Honduras	16 September	N/A	1 ship sunk, all drowned aboard
1504	North Coast of Colombia	N/A	175	N/A
1508	Dominican Republic	12 August	N/A	Destroyed entire population of Buenaventura
1509	Santo Domingo	29 July	N/A	Moderate damage
1515	Puerto Rico	July	Many natives	N/A
1519	Jamaica	N/A	N/A	Ship sunk, 18 survived
1523	Florida west coast	N/A	N/A	2 ships and their crews lost
1524	Cuba	October	73	N/A

[edit] 1525-1549

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1525	Western Cuba	Late October	73	N/A
1526	Wilmington, North Carolina	June	N/A	1 Spanish ship lost
1527	Western Cuba	October	70	Severe flooding
1527	near mouth of the Mississippi	23 October	unknown	possibly associated with previous storm; barges under Panifo de Narvaez tossed like driftwood
1527	Upper Texas Coast	November	200	1 of only 2 November Texas hurricanes, Merchant fleet destroyed
1530	Puerto Rico	Aug. 31	"Uncounted number of deaths by drowning"	N/A
1533	Puerto Rico	N/A	Many slaves killed	Possibly 3 hurricanes
1537	Puerto Rico	N/A	Many slaves drowned	N/A
1537	Northwest Cuba	N/A	N/A	2 ships lost
1545	Dominican Republic	Aug. 20	Many	N/A
1545	Mexico	N/A	N/A	1 ship lost

[edit] 1550-1574

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1550	Florida Keys	N/A	N/A	Ship lost near Havana
1551	Gulf of Honduras	N/A	Many	One ship sunk, all drowned
1553	Western Florida	N/A	700	N/A
1553	Texas	N/A	Many drownings	Sixteen ships lost
1554	Cuba	November	N/A	One ship sank
1554	South Texas	N/A	N/A	Three ships lost
1559	Western Florida	August 20	500	N/A
1565	Offshore Eastern Florida	September 22	N/A	French ships lost at sea
1566	Eastern Florida	September 13	N/A	N/A
1566	Offshore Eastern Florida	September 24	N/A	N/A
1566	Gulf of Mexico	N/A	5+	Four ships destroyed
1567	Near Dominica	N/A	N/A	Six ships destroyed
1571	St. Augustine, Florida	N/A	N/A	Heavy flooding, two ships lost

[edit] 1575-1599

Year	Location	Date	Deaths	Damage/Notes
1579	Atlantic Ocean	N/A	N/A	Spanish Armada's 600 ton Almirante sunk
1586	Roanoke Island	June 23- June 26	N/A	First of many storms to hit the first colonial settlement
1586	Bahamas	N/A	N/A	Nine ships lost, possibly related to above
1587	Roanoke Island	August 31	N/A	Sir Francis Drake took six days to regroup in Roanoke after the storm
1588	Roanoke Island	N/A	116	Third of four hurricanes to hit the area in five years
1589	Bahamas	September 9	N/A	four ships sank
1590	Gulf of Mexico	"Early 1590"	1000	N/A
1591	Atlantic Ocean	August 10	501	Waves and rain, twenty two ships lost
1594	Caribbean Sea	N/A	N/A	One ship lost

[edit] See also

• List of Atlantic hurricanes
• List of Atlantic hurricane seasons

[edit] External links

• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdeadlyapp1.shtml
• http://www.candoo.com/genresources/hurricane.htm
• http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/roth/vahur.htm
• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/research/la18hu.php