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Climatology
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Grand Turk, TCI (MBGT)
Location: 21.47N 71.14W
Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (21.47N,71.14W) 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 for each decade since 1851 for Grand Turk. Note that the most recent 'decade' (2000-2008) only consists of 9 years. All storms since 1851 in one image [colored spaghetti] can be found elsewhere. In the climatology section there is also a weekly analysis of the data which shows when the real peak of hurricane season is for Grand Turk and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Grand Turk recently.
Projection: Island | Caribbean | Atlantic | World |
![[ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc.]](colorbar.png)
| 2000 - 2008 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
11 Oct 2003 46 ts 8 MINDY
1 Sep 2004 138 h4 40 FRANCES
3 Sep 2008 58 ts 43 HANNA
7 Sep 2008 132 h4 23 IKE
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| 1990 - 1999 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
8 Oct 1990 52 ts 62 KLAUS
9 Jul 1996 104 h2 60 BERTHA
12 Sep 1996 115 h3 34 HORTENSE
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| 1980 - 1989 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
9 Sep 1981 40 ts 29 GERT
8 Oct 1985 52 ts 17 ISABEL
18 Nov 1985 92 h1 4 KATE
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| 1970 - 1979 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
NO STORMS PASSED BY THIS DECADE
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| 1960 - 1969 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
7 Sep 1960 144 h4 42 DONNA
18 Sep 1960 46 ts 39 FLORENCE
4 Oct 1961 63 ts 64 FRANCES
28 Sep 1963 40 ts 25 EDITH
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| 1950 - 1959 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
24 Sep 1952 63 ts 25 CHARLIE
7 Sep 1954 75 h1 54 EDNA
17 Oct 1955 69 ts 60 KATIE
13 Aug 1956 109 h2 16 BETSY
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| 1940 - 1949 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
19 May 1940 40 ts 49 NOTNAMED
6 Aug 1940 52 ts 2 NOTNAMED
15 Oct 1941 40 ts 8 NOTNAMED
5 Nov 1942 52 ts 16 NOTNAMED
20 Aug 1945 46 ts 42 NOTNAMED
14 Sep 1945 121 h3 19 NOTNAMED
23 May 1948 40 ts 16 NOTNAMED
25 Aug 1949 69 ts 69 NOTNAMED
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| 1930 - 1939 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
27 Aug 1932 40 ts 23 NOTNAMED
3 Sep 1932 98 h2 64 NOTNAMED
27 Jul 1933 92 h1 17 NOTNAMED
31 Aug 1933 81 h1 39 NOTNAMED
28 Nov 1934 46 ts 43 NOTNAMED
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| 1920 - 1929 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
25 Jul 1926 115 h3 38 NOTNAMED
16 Sep 1926 150 h4 20 NOTNAMED
15 Sep 1928 155 h5 29 NOTNAMED
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| 1910 - 1919 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
NO STORMS PASSED BY THIS DECADE
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| 1900 - 1909 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
8 Jul 1901 69 ts 15 NOTNAMED
21 Jul 1903 40 ts 50 NOTNAMED
5 Sep 1906 132 h4 47 NOTNAMED
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| 1890 - 1899 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
21 Aug 1891 98 h2 24 NOTNAMED
18 Aug 1893 121 h3 12 NOTNAMED
2 Sep 1899 69 ts 10 NOTNAMED
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| 1880 - 1889 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
3 Sep 1882 69 ts 8 NOTNAMED
21 Aug 1885 46 ts 1 NOTNAMED
17 Sep 1886 46 ts 32 NOTNAMED
23 Oct 1886 52 ts 4 NOTNAMED
2 Sep 1888 104 h2 7 NOTNAMED
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| 1870 - 1879 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
23 Oct 1870 104 h2 64 NOTNAMED
23 Aug 1871 104 h2 36 NOTNAMED
24 Sep 1877 46 ts 4 NOTNAMED
16 Aug 1879 69 ts 15 NOTNAMED
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| 1860 - 1869 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
13 Aug 1861 46 ts 38 NOTNAMED
1 Oct 1866 127 h3 5 NOTNAMED
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| 1851 - 1859 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
20 Aug 1852 81 h1 10 NOTNAMED
26 Sep 1852 92 h1 61 NOTNAMED
25 Aug 1856 81 h1 30 NOTNAMED
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Grand Turk, TCI: all dec peak 5yr rank
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