The United States provided emergency humanitarian aid and economic assistance to Cape Verde in the period immediately following Cape Verde's independence, as well as after natural disasters, including a hurricane that struck the island of Brava in 1982, and after a severe volcanic eruption on Fogo in 1995.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane.

Again in 2008 the Gulf Coast was struck by a catastrophic hurricane.

Twelve people were actually on the island when the hurricane struck, part of a contracted USAF crew sent to the island to monitor groundwater contamination levels.

Katrina was a Category 3 hurricane when it struck although it had been a category 5 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

* October 29 – The Iberian Peninsula is struck by a category 2 hurricane.

A particularly devastating hurricane struck in 1837, which was reported to have completed destroyed 17 of the Territory's sugar works.

*** Hurricane Irene – Olivia, struck Nicaragua as a Category 1 hurricane, then tracked to the Eastern Pacific Ocean and became Eastern Pacific's hurricane Olivia

*** Hurricane Irene ( 1999 ), Category 2 hurricane ; passed over Cuba and struck Florida, causing $ 800 million ( 1999 USD ) in damage

On September 8, 1900, the island was struck by a devastating hurricane.

The city was struck by hurricane San Zenón in 1930, which caused major damage.

About this time, on October 17, 1910, a major hurricane struck the area.

On August 1, 1899, the 2nd hurricane of the season struck the area almost destroying the town leaving just nine homes.

A hurricane with a storm surge struck the Cedar Keys on October 4, 1842, destroying Cantonment Morgan and causing much damage on Depot Key.

Although Tobago lies to the south of the hurricane belt, it was nevertheless struck by Hurricane Flora on September 30, 1963.

Belize City has been directly struck by two hurricanes since 1900, the 1931 hurricane and 1961's Hurricane Hattie, and at various times areas of the City have been burnt down, the most recent being the 1999 Albert Street fire that burnt out Mikado's, and a 2004 fire that destroyed the Paslow building.

The island was struck directly by two Category 4 hurricanes during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.

The ship struck a reef after being caught in a hurricane.

Hurricane Floyd was a very powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane which struck the east coast of the United States.

It struck Galveston and Houston, Texas directly, causing $ 2. 6 billion ( 1983 USD ; $ USD ) in damage and killing 21 people ; this made it the worst Texas hurricane since Hurricane Carla in 1961.

Its first hurricane warnings were issued in 2008 for Hurricane Kyle, which struck near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on September 28, 2008, and quickly became extratropical while maintaining much of its strength into New Brunswick and Labrador.

The hurricane struck Barbados with winds possibly exceeding, before moving past Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Sint Eustatius ; thousands of deaths were reported on the islands.

In early October a major hurricane struck Cedar Key, where the Army headquarters had been located, and the Indians would no longer visit it.

* September 10 – The worst hurricane in Belize history kills an estimated 1, 500.

" On top of this economic disaster, the worst hurricane in the country's recent history demolished Belize Town on 10 September 1931, killing more than 1, 000 people and destroying at least three-quarters of the housing.

Because the hurricane threatened to strike near Belize City as a Category 4 hurricane, much of the city was evacuated in fear of a repeat of Hurricane Hattie 37 years earlier.

As Gilbert approached the Yucatán Peninsula on September 14, the hurricane warning in the region was extended to cover the entire coast between Chetumal and Champotón, while a hurricane watch was posted for the northern district of Belize.

It reached the coast of Belize on July 24 as a minimal hurricane, and dissipated shortly thereafter.

* Hurricane Alex ( 2010 ), a Category 2 hurricane that made landfall in Belize as a tropical storm and passed over the Yucatán Peninsula before making landfall in Tamaulipas, Mexico, at maximum intensity

Later on September 2, the hurricane made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula ; its northern jog spared Belize City from a direct hit.

Fearing significant loss of life and property, the Red Cross began preparations for the approaching hurricane in Belize.

By late on October 2, Keith made landfall in Ambergris Caye, Belize as a minimal hurricane.

Hurricane Iris was a Category 4 hurricane that devastated Belize in October 2001.

In Belize, where Iris made landfall, a hurricane warning was issued about 23 hours before the storm moved ashore.

Janet remained a Category 5 hurricane, and hit near the city of Chetumal, Mexico near the border of Quintana Roo and British Honduras ( modern-day Belize ) on September 28.

Hattie turned towards the west to the east of Jamaica, and strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of before weakening to Category 4 status at landfall south of Belize City.

Most of the people in the capital, Belize City, were evacuated or moved to shelters, although some shelters were unsafe and were destroyed in the hurricane.

The hurricane moved ashore with powerful winds and a storm tide of up to 14 feet ( 4. 3 m ) near Belize City, a city of 31, 000 people located at sea-level ; the city's only defenses against the storm tide were a small seawall and a strip of swamp lands.

A British Honduras ( now Belize ) postage stamp overprint ed in 1962 to mark the hurricane.

On the 44th anniversary of the hurricane in 2005, the government of Belize unveiled a monument in Belize City to recognize the victims of the hurricane.

Maintaining hurricane intensity, Fifi brushed the northern coast of Honduras before making landfall in Belize the following day.

Officials in Belize and Guatemala rushed to complete emergency precautions for the approaching hurricane.