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Port au Prince, Haiti (MTPP)

Location: 18.57N 72.30W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.57N, 72.30W) 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 Port au Prince. 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 Port au Prince and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Port au Prince recently.

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

2010 - 2019
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
25 Aug 2012    63   ts   32   ISAAC

2000 - 2009
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
23 Oct 2005    52   ts    7   ALPHA
29 Oct 2007    52   ts   23   NOEL
12 Dec 2007    46   ts   36   OLGA
16 Aug 2008    46   ts   13   FAY
26 Aug 2008    81   h1   46   GUSTAV

1990 - 1999
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
23 Sep 1998    75   h1   32   GEORGES

1980 - 1989
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
23 Sep 1987    81   h1   60   EMILY

1970 - 1979
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
 1 Sep 1979   115   h3   53   DAVID

1960 - 1969
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
 4 Oct 1963   150   h4   51   FLORA
24 Aug 1964   150   h4   63   CLEO
29 Sep 1966   115   h3   28   INEZ
11 Sep 1967    92   h1   65   BEULAH

1950 - 1959
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
17 Oct 1955   109   h2   49   KATIE
 1 Sep 1958   109   h2   58   ELLA
15 Sep 1958    46   ts   28   GERDA

1940 - 1949
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
  NO STORMS PASSED BY THIS PERIOD

1930 - 1939
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
 4 Sep 1930    69   ts   17   UNNAMED
12 Sep 1931    46   ts   25   UNNAMED
28 Sep 1932    86   h1   39   UNNAMED
 9 Aug 1938    40   ts   43   UNNAMED

1920 - 1929
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
  NO STORMS PASSED BY THIS PERIOD

1910 - 1919
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
24 Aug 1910    40   ts    8   UNNAMED
 8 Sep 1910    81   h1   55   UNNAMED

1900 - 1909
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
 2 Sep 1900    40   ts   28   UNNAMED
13 Sep 1901    40   ts   21   UNNAMED
28 Sep 1908    81   h1   21   UNNAMED
23 Aug 1909    75   h1   15   UNNAMED

1890 - 1899
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
22 Sep 1894    86   h1    7   UNNAMED
29 Jul 1899    58   ts   52   UNNAMED
 1 Sep 1899    63   ts    7   UNNAMED

1880 - 1889
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
 6 Sep 1883    92   h1   43   UNNAMED
15 Aug 1886    92   h1    3   UNNAMED
21 Oct 1886    40   ts   28   UNNAMED
11 Oct 1887    52   ts   62   UNNAMED

1870 - 1879
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
28 Sep 1873   115   h3   60   UNNAMED
14 Sep 1876    58   ts   54   UNNAMED
 4 Sep 1878    81   h1   11   UNNAMED
25 Sep 1878    81   h1   10   UNNAMED

1860 - 1869
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
30 Oct 1867    69   ts    6   UNNAMED

1850 - 1859
    date     wind  cat. cpoa  name
19 Aug 1851    69   ts   15   UNNAMED
27 Aug 1855    46   ts   62   UNNAMED

Port au Prince, Haiti: all dec peak 5yr rank

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