us landfalling storms

[weatherwindow]

good morning all....can someone save me some time and list the dates of landfall of all tropical cyclones that crossed the US coast as verifiable cat 4's...trying to shine some light on possible patterns with the larger scale distribution of all US hurricane landfalls ....an advance thanks...rich.......ps historical storms, that are beyond the scope of modern era verfication(ie, prior to 1851 and the reanalysis), can be included if enough observational support exists via pressure readings, tide records, associated damage to make a cat 4 call reasonable....once again thanks.....rich

[ColinDelia]

64 major hurricanes to hit US from 1900-2000
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/Table4.htm

US landfalling hurricanes 1900-2009
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastprofile.shtml#usl

[weatherwindow]

thanks colin....for any and all, an expanded list, including earlier prospective cat 4's, would be appreciated.....as far back as is feasible the currrent 109 yr list would is really to small a sample to work with....200 to 250yrs would be better and with date ie month/yr would be preferred.....thanks in advance.....rich

[ColinDelia]

The HURDAT database goes back to 1850. I don't think there is anything reliable older than that.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/index.html

It wouldn't take much time at all to click on every year and compile the data you want.
I've done a few projects out of personal interest and done just that.

I would definitely read
"3e.) Limitations and Errors"
"3g.) United States Tropical Cyclones" and
"Table 7: Estimated average position and intensity errors in best track for the years 1851-1910. "

at the link below b/c there are going to be errors in the older data such as sparsely populated areas and such that might miss or mis-categorize storms. Prior to 1900 you will have full category errors in storms hitting sparsely populated errors and almost a full category error even in settled areas .
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/aug ... -jan03.htm

[ColinDelia]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/ba ... turn.shtml

Go to this link and look in the right hand column and you can see the average number of years between category 4 storms by 75 mile section of coast. Only a 100 year database though - which is probably all that is reasonably accurate anyway.

[StormClouds63]

So is Ike the last hurricane to make U.S. landfall? ... or was it Ida last year? I thought Ida went in as a TS.

[weatherwindow]

thx for the great suggestions and input, cd....i am trying to extend this record back to the beginnings of the 17th century where possible...i fully understand that it may be both incomplete and have many potential inaccuracies in both track and intensity...even so, it may shed some light on what i suppose to be decadal and multidecadal landfalling patterns...so the more landfalls chronicled the better even in a proximate sense.....thanks again for everything that is submitted.....rich

[weatherwindow]

hey all you storm wonks....still looking for another century or two of US landfalling cat 4 hurricanes to fill out a decent data set....again grateful for the 1900-2009 list from colin....looking backward from that date to the 18th and, perhaps, the 17th centuries...remember i am looking for storms which approximate cat 4 regimes, given local parameters..."record tides", comparable to modern cat 4 regimes, recorded "extreme, catastrophic winds and comparable damage and whatever other anecdotal info exists....in addition, near shore marine narratives of cat 4 conditions are valuable as they may translate into landfall values if in close proximity to the coast....one and all are welcome to contribute and will be given credits

[capepoint]

Check out "North Carolina Hurricane history" by Jay Barnes. Also "The History of the US Lifesaving service in North Carolina by David Stick (i think). Both name and describe several major hurricanes that affected coastal North Carolina in the 1600's 1700's and 1800's.

[wxman57]

So is Ike the last hurricane to make U.S. landfall? ... or was it Ida last year? I thought Ida went in as a TS.

Ike was the last U.S. landfall. Ida weakened to a remnant low prior to hitting the U.S.