North Andros, The Bahamas: storm history

64 storms have passed within 50 km of North Andros from 1857 to 2020. The map shows The Bahamas; search for a town in North Andros to see storms near it.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

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 North Andros

The record holds 64 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of North Andros, The Bahamas between 1857 and 2020. The busiest month is August, with 20 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 4 strength. 6 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 64storms within 50 km
  • 13major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 29at 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 North Andros?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1016%
Tropical storm1930%
Category 11016%
Category 269%
Category 358%
Category 4813%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity69%

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

North Andros storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 8 in 1890s.1850s1870s1890s1910s1930s1950s1970s1990s2010s

The 2020s only run to 2020, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1857, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

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PeriodCount
1850s1
1860s4
1870s4
1880s5
1890s8
1900s4
1910s1
1920s7
1930s4
1940s5
1950s2
1960s2
1970s4
1980s3
1990s2
2000s2
2010s4
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 20 in Aug.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May0Jun3Jul4Aug20Sep18Oct14Nov5Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May0
Jun3
Jul4
Aug20
Sep18
Oct14
Nov5
Dec0

Strongest storms near North Andros

  • Unnamed storm of September 1928 (North Atlantic)6 September 1928 to 21 September 1928, Category 4 (135 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 929 hPa
  • Andrew (1992)16 August 1992 to 28 August 1992, Category 4 (130 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (150 kt), 922 hPa
  • 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

Most recent storms near North Andros

  • Sally (2020)11 September 2020 to 18 September 2020, Tropical depression (30 kt) near here, peak Category 2 (95 kt), 967 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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