1831 Barbados–Louisiana hurricane

Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1831 February 2025 1831 Barbados–Louisiana hurricane August 10, 1831 before August 10, 1831 August 17, 1831 after August 17, 1831 115 1831 c. 2,500 7000000 Barbados, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Louisiana 1831 Atlantic hurricane season The Great Barbados hurricane was an intense Category 4 hurricane that left cataclysmic damage across the Caribbean and Louisiana in 1831. Meteorological history The storm came toward the end of an active summer storm season. In June of 1831, Captain Charles Cooper from the mail-boat schooner Friends took note of a strong gale about 15 miles south of Grenada, more severe than any storm since 1780.https://books.google.com/books?id=9DlWAAAAcAAJ Account of the Fatal Hurricane, by which Barbados Suffered in August 1831: To which is Prefixed a Succinct Narrative of the Convulsions of the Elements, which at Several Times Have Visited and Injured the West Indian Islands 1831 Samuel Hyde en30–31 Impact During the storm, roofs of most buildings swayed against the walls, eventually settling in the ground. Trinidad was wholly destroyed, though ships in the Gulf of Paria escaped without damage. The storm also caused a boat to travel ashore.30–31 The storm caused ships to sink and killed 1,500 people and caused $7 million USD in damages. According to the Bridgetown Press, Barbados was "laid waste", that no sign of plants was present.Griffin-Elliott Thia 185th Anniversary of the Great Barbados hurricane https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hurricane_blog/185th-anniversary-of-the-great-barbados-hurricane/ 2024-10-26 NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory en-US The death toll was controversial, with the apparent death toll being much higher. 2021-10-30 Account of the Fatal Hurricane by which Barbados suffered in August 1831 https://historycollections.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/10/30/account-of-the-fatal-hurricane-by-which-barbados-suffered-in-august-1831/ 2024-10-26 History Collections en-GB See also Tropical cyclones Hurricane Georges (1998) – had a similar track Further reading Levy Claude 1959 Barbados: The Last Years of Slavery 1823–1833 Journal of Negro History 44 4 308–345 10.2307/2716613 2716613 148753833 Longshore David David Longshore Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones Great Caribbean Hurricane of 1831 1998 Facts on File New York 0-8160-3398-6 145 registration https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofhu00long_0/page/145 Early American Hurricanes: 1492-1870 Ludlum David M. 1963 American Meteorological Society Boston 140–142 Edghill J. Y. About Barbados 1890 C. Tallis & Co London 31–38 https://archive.org/details/aboutbarbados00edgh/ References Barbados hurricane 1831 Barbados-Louisiana Category:Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes Category:Hurricanes in Barbados Category:Hurricanes in Louisiana Barbados hurricane Category:August 1831 Category:1831 natural disasters in the United States Category:1831 in the Caribbean Category:Meteorological events in 1831