1830s Atlantic hurricane seasons
Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic basin.
It came close to present-day Daytona Beach on August 15, but recurved northeastward before landfall, although land was not spared from effects.
The hurricane broke a three-month drought, but caused heavy crop damage in the process.
A hurricane moved from north of Puerto Rico on September 29 to well northeast of Bermuda on October 1.
An intense hurricane, likely of Category 4 strength left cataclysmic damage across the Caribbean.
The hurricane destroyed Bridgetown (the capital of Barbados) and left 1500–2500 people dead who mostly drowned in the reported 17-foot storm surge or were crushed by collapsed buildings as the island was left desolate after the storm.
The storm completely destroyed every sugar plantation on the island of St. Vincent, Saint Johns Parish church and the town of Les Cayes, Haiti, and damaged Santiago de Cuba.
[13] A hurricane hit near the mouth of the Rio Bravo del Norte, causing heavy rain over Northern Mexico.
The cyclone moved across the eastern Gulf of Mexico, striking northwest Florida.
A hurricane on August 23–27, moved from the central Leeward Islands to the east of Jamaica.
[16] A tropical storm hit Saint Kitts on August 14 and continued northward into the Atlantic during the next several more days.
[17] A hurricane passed offshore of North Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia, on August 21 keeping ships at harbor but causing no damage.
It moved through North Carolina and Virginia, capsizing the ship E Pluribus Unum.
Then the hurricane made its second landfall at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on the September 23.
On land the hurricane disrupted the funeral service of Padre Ruiz, a Roman Catholic priest.
It moved across the Florida Straits and the Gulf of Mexico, hitting near the mouth of the Rio Grande on August 18.
There, it destroyed small villages, caused strong storm surge, and killed 18 people.
The hurricane story published in the Key West Inquirer newspaper, which had only been in publication for one year up to that point.
The newly-built and not yet lit Ponce de Leon Inlet Light was destroyed by the storm as it passed up the Florida coast.
As a hurricane, the system moved ashore in southern Florida and then through the northeast Gulf of Mexico into Alabama by August 5.
[45] Thereafter, the tropical cyclone moved northwest to the Florida/Georgia border before recurving through the western Carolinas on August 7.
[44] The Calypso Hurricane A tropical system was observed east of the West Indies on August 13.
It stalled near the coast for three days and then recurved to the east hitting Galveston, Texas,[27] Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Pensacola, Florida, and South and North Carolina.
[44] The hurricane caused destruction all over the Gulf of Mexico including destroying the Mexican Navy and several U.S. ships.
During the storm, a paddle boat named Home headed to Charleston ran into the hurricane off of Cape Hatteras.
As a result of this sinking, U.S. Congress passed a law from this storm mandating the every vessel in the future must have at least enough life preservers for every passenger on board.
On August 30, a hurricane struck Barbados and continued to travel to offshore of the U.S. East Coast during early September.
On September 28, a tropical storm struck South Carolina and continued to moved off the southeast U.S. Coast over the next few days.
[54] A late season hurricane hit the east coast of Mexico on November 1, sinking two U.S. ships.
Two hurricanes hit Cayman Islands causing significant damage in 1838 or 1837 on September 28 and around October 25.
