Mangrove Cay, The Bahamas: storm history

41 storms have passed within 50 km of Mangrove Cay from 1863 to 2025. The map shows The Bahamas; search for a town in Mangrove Cay to see storms near it.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

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Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

Storms near Mangrove Cay

The record holds 41 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Mangrove Cay, The Bahamas between 1863 and 2025. The busiest month is September, with 13 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 4 strength. 4 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 41storms within 50 km
  • 7major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 17at category 1 strength or more

A storm counts once, however many times it came close. The category is the storm's strongest point within 50 km, which can be weaker than its peak elsewhere.

How strong were the storms near Mangrove Cay?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression37%
Tropical storm1741%
Category 1615%
Category 2410%
Category 337%
Category 4410%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity410%

The agency behind most of the intensity figures here is the NOAA National Hurricane Center (HURDAT2, Atlantic).

Mangrove Cay storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 6 in 1890s.1860s1880s1900s1920s1940s1960s1980s2010s

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1863, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

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PeriodCount
1860s3
1870s1
1880s1
1890s6
1900s2
1910s3
1920s3
1930s4
1940s4
1950s2
1960s1
1970s3
1980s1
2000s2
2010s3
2020s2

Earlier decades hold fewer storms partly because they were harder to see. Before weather satellites (about the 1960s) many storms that stayed at sea went unrecorded, so compare decades with care.

Storms by month
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 13 in Sep.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May0Jun1Jul3Aug8Sep13Oct12Nov4Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May0
Jun1
Jul3
Aug8
Sep13
Oct12
Nov4
Dec0

Strongest storms near Mangrove Cay

  • Unnamed storm of September 1926 (North Atlantic)11 September 1926 to 22 September 1926, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 930 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of September 1929 (North Atlantic)19 September 1929 to 5 October 1929, peak Category 4 (135 kt), 924 hPa
  • Matthew (2016)28 September 2016 to 10 October 2016, Category 4 (120 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 934 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of September 1945 (North Atlantic)12 September 1945 to 20 September 1945, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 949 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of September 1919 (North Atlantic)2 September 1919 to 16 September 1919, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 927 hPa

Most recent storms near Mangrove Cay

  • Imelda (2025)26 September 2025 to 6 October 2025, Tropical storm (35 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (80 kt), 966 hPa
  • Isaias (2020)28 July 2020 to 5 August 2020, peak Category 1 (80 kt), 986 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of July 2019 (North Atlantic)22 July 2019 to 23 July 2019, peak Tropical depression (30 kt), 1,013 hPa

Many of these storms killed people and destroyed homes. The figures are the official record's, and this page says nothing about their human cost.

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