Table 1: Twenty tropical storms have passed within 40 km of Florida Bay (25.1N 80.7W) between 1894 and 1994. Third column refers to status of the storm during its passage over Florida Bay (H-hurricane, T-tropical storm, TD-tropical depression). Fourth column is estimated wind speed over the bay. Only eleven of the storms were hurricanes at the time they impacted Florida Bay.

DATE	NAME	STATUS	WIND SPEED (KNOTS)
October 1904	Unnamed	T	55
June 1906	Unnamed	T	70
October 1906	Unnamed	H	110
October 1909	Unnamed	H	85
November 1916	Unnamed	T	70
September 1929	Unnamed	H	90
August 1932	Unnamed	T	55
September 1935	Unnamed	H	130
November 1935	Unnamed	H	65
August 1936	Unnamed	T	50
October 1948	Unnamed	H	115
September 1960	Donna	H	130
September 1965	Betsy	H	110
October 1966	Inez	H	75
June 1968	Brenda	T	25
September 1970	Felice	TD	30
September 1972	Dawn	TD	30
October 1987	Floyd	TD	30
November 1994	Gordon	T	45
September 1999	Georges	H	45