Text Only Version TEXT ONLY VERSION NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER Visit NWS Visit NOAA Visit FEMA Contact Us Visit the NOAA Coastal Services Center Historical Hurricane Tracks website to learn about historical tropical cyclones occurring in different areas located throughout the North Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and East-Central North Pacific Basins. The website provides information about U.S. coastal county population versus hurricane strikes as well as links to various Internet resources focusing on tropical cyclones. The interactive mapping application allows you to search the National Hurricane Center historical tropical cyclone database and graphically display storms affecting your area since 1851. Start your search Please note that the following list is not exhaustive and does not include every notable storm in history. ATLANTIC-GULF MIAMI SAN FELIPE-OKEECHOBEE ... WILMA Galveston Hurricane 1900 This killer weather system was first detected over the tropical Atlantic on August 27. While the history of the track and intensity is not fully known, the system reached Cuba as a tropical storm on September 3 and moved into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico on the 5th. A general west-northwestward motion occurred over the Gulf accompanied by rapid intensification. By the time the storm reached the Texas coast south of Galveston late on September 8, it was a Category 4 hurricane. After landfall, the cyclone turned northward through the Great Plains. It became extratropical and turned east-northeastward on September 11, passing across the Great Lakes, New England, and southeastern Canada. It was last spotted over the north Atlantic on September 15. | |
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