Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic basin.
A hurricane was sighted at Dominica on September 26 before moving west-northwest through Hispaniola, then across the southwest Atlantic to South Carolina on October 1.
This also corroborated John Farrar's previously published work a few years earlier in 1819 that a hurricane was a rotating counter-clockwise vortex.
Redfield determined that hurricanes formed east of the Leeward Islands and then travel westwards at a moderate speed.
William Reid of the Royal Engineers built on Redfield's work by studying logs of ships affected by the Great Hurricane of 1780.
It claimed the lives of hundreds of slaves who found themselves trapped in the low-lying Santee Delta, miles from higher ground and with no shelter.
The family's sole survivor, Mordecai Myers, buried the victims, which included his parents.
[17] From October 20 to the 22, a hurricane hit Virginia, causing heavy damage and winds in the Richmond area.
A ship carrying the contractor and supplies for building three lighthouses in Florida was lost, possibly sunk by this storm.
When it reached the western Atlantic it rapidly strengthened, hitting Charleston, South Carolina as a hurricane on June 4-5.
The storm lost strength as it began moving up the U.S. East coast and out over the northwestern Atlantic Ocean.
On July 26, a powerful hurricane struck Guadeloupe and continued west-northwestward to hit Puerto Rico, causing 1,300 deaths, before tracking to the west of Bermuda by August 2.
The Santa Ana hurricane may have been one of the most intense cyclones to strike Puerto Rico in the last few hundred years.
[30] Meteorological historian Jose Fernandez-Partagás suggests that this reading may have been inaccurate and was more likely around 28.10 inHg (952 mb).
[9] [33] During November 17 and 18, the schooner Harvest was wrecked on the North Carolina coast, probably near Nags Head, and five or more persons were killed in what may have been a late season hurricane.
[9] [34] A strong hurricane devastated Orotava Valley, Tenerife, and the rest of the Canary Islands off north Africa in November.
[37] It moved up the Chesapeake Bay, causing higher than normal tides, and eventually through New England by August 27.
A hurricane struck Belize City on August 19, 1827, and “drove all ships on shore at Belize.”[40] It has been identified as ‘Event 5’ in Belizean sedimentary records by McCloskey and Keller.
A tropical storm moved through the southwest Atlantic between the West Indies and Bermuda from August 29 to September 8.