Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Key West, USA (KEYW)

Location: 24.60N 81.70W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (24.60N,81.70W) might not be the center of the island. Often the location of the island weather station was used, which is normally at the airport.
Please note that not only hurricanes (h1-h5) are included but also tropical storms (ts). Wind/category reported is maximum measured while the system moved through region (box). Each category storm has its own color (see color bar below; ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc., see the guide for definitions). Different projections can be selected, the island projections are most zoomed in (select if you want to see how close the systems passed by the island [not available for regions]), while the world projection most zoomed out (select when you want to see the complete path of the storm). Winds are in miles per hour. It is also calculated how close the center of the storm came to the island, the so-called closest point of approach (cpoa, in miles).

Below you can see all stormtracks since 1851 for Key West (for more details about individual storms skip to another page where storms are separated per decade). In the climatology section there is also a weekly analysis of the data which shows when the real peak of hurricane season is for Key West and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Key West recently.

Projection: Island | Caribbean | Atlantic | World |
[ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc.]

1851 - 2010

date wind cat. cpoa name 22 Aug 1852 104 h2 35 NOTNAMED 15 Aug 1861 92 h1 33 NOTNAMED 1 Nov 1861 69 ts 67 NOTNAMED 23 Oct 1865 104 h2 4 NOTNAMED 8 Oct 1870 104 h2 33 NOTNAMED 20 Oct 1870 92 h1 64 NOTNAMED 1 Jun 1871 46 ts 34 NOTNAMED 19 Oct 1876 104 h2 14 NOTNAMED 8 Sep 1878 69 ts 47 NOTNAMED 21 Oct 1878 81 h1 45 NOTNAMED 17 Aug 1881 46 ts 36 NOTNAMED 18 Aug 1886 75 h1 51 NOTNAMED 23 Sep 1888 40 ts 49 NOTNAMED 6 Oct 1889 46 ts 35 NOTNAMED 7 Oct 1891 52 ts 6 NOTNAMED 10 Jun 1892 46 ts 51 NOTNAMED 25 Sep 1894 92 h1 19 NOTNAMED 1 Oct 1895 58 ts 30 NOTNAMED 16 Oct 1895 40 ts 65 NOTNAMED 10 Sep 1897 69 ts 18 NOTNAMED 23 Oct 1898 46 ts 67 NOTNAMED 30 Jul 1899 40 ts 63 NOTNAMED 6 Sep 1900 69 ts 51 NOTNAMED 20 Oct 1904 40 ts 55 NOTNAMED 17 Jun 1906 86 h1 26 NOTNAMED 18 Oct 1906 121 h3 30 NOTNAMED 11 Oct 1909 115 h3 15 NOTNAMED 18 Oct 1910 121 h3 56 NOTNAMED 14 May 1916 40 ts 50 NOTNAMED 16 Nov 1916 58 ts 16 NOTNAMED 10 Sep 1919 150 h4 27 NOTNAMED 21 Oct 1926 127 h3 37 NOTNAMED 13 Aug 1928 69 ts 23 NOTNAMED 28 Sep 1929 109 h2 50 NOTNAMED 1 Sep 1933 104 h2 56 NOTNAMED 5 Oct 1933 121 h3 43 NOTNAMED 27 May 1934 46 ts 32 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1935 150 h4 48 NOTNAMED 5 Nov 1935 75 h1 35 NOTNAMED 29 Jul 1936 63 ts 62 NOTNAMED 17 Oct 1941 46 ts 43 NOTNAMED 19 Oct 1944 121 h3 69 NOTNAMED 4 Sep 1945 40 ts 26 NOTNAMED 19 Aug 1947 46 ts 34 NOTNAMED 12 Oct 1947 81 h1 7 NOTNAMED 21 Sep 1948 121 h3 5 NOTNAMED 5 Oct 1948 127 h3 23 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1950 86 h1 36 EASY 3 Feb 1952 40 ts 14 NOTNAMED 10 Sep 1960 138 h4 51 DONNA 14 Oct 1964 127 h3 36 ISBELL 8 Sep 1965 127 h3 43 BETSY 8 Jun 1966 127 h3 47 ALMA 5 Oct 1966 92 h1 4 INEZ 2 Oct 1969 46 ts 34 JENNY 19 Aug 1976 40 ts 22 DOTTIE 16 Aug 1981 40 ts 25 DENNIS 12 Oct 1987 75 h1 0 FLOYD 10 Oct 1990 52 ts 36 MARCO 15 Nov 1994 52 ts 1 GORDON 25 Sep 1998 104 h2 25 GEORGES 15 Oct 1999 75 h1 2 IRENE 26 Aug 2005 98 h2 39 KATRINA 21 Sep 2005 109 h2 46 RITA 19 Aug 2008 63 ts 5 FAY

Key West, USA: all dec peak 5yr rank

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