NHC AL031999 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Bret (1999)
August 18, 1999 – August 25, 1999
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Bret peaked at Category 4 with 144 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 59 US cities, 42 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Bret in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Bret for 6 days, from August 18, 1999 to August 25, 1999. Its first position, at 19.5°N 94.4°W, records it as a tropical depression; its last, at 27.6°N 103.0°W, as a tropical depression. It reached tropical-storm strength on August 19, hurricane strength on August 21 and major-hurricane strength on August 22. Its peak was 144 mph (125 knots), Category 4, on August 22, and its lowest central pressure was 944 millibars on August 22. It spent about 2 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on August 23 at 115 mph (Category 3), 37 miles from Raymondville, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 59 US cities, all in Texas, between August 22 and August 23. The strongest pass was 136 mph (Category 4) 40 miles from South Padre Island, TX; the centre came closest to Falfurrias, TX, 1 mile away. 42 of the cities had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 10 at major-hurricane strength. It reached more US cities than 21% of the 737 storms on this site, and ranks 5th of the 7 storms of 1999 here.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 59
- At hurricane strength
- 42
- States
- 1
144 mph
when closest
Cities Bret passed near, strongest first
Texas (59)
- South Padre IslandCategory 4 · 40 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 4 · 45 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 4 · 60 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 3 · 49 mi
- OlmitoCategory 3 · 57 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 3 · 43 mi
- San BenitoCategory 3 · 55 mi
- Port AransasCategory 3 · 66 mi
- Aransas PassCategory 3 · 72 mi
- InglesideCategory 3 · 68 mi
- HarlingenCategory 2 · 51 mi
- GregoryCategory 2 · 70 mi
- LyfordCategory 2 · 38 mi
- PortlandCategory 2 · 67 mi
- Corpus ChristiCategory 2 · 55 mi
- La FeriaCategory 2 · 56 mi
- Santa RosaCategory 2 · 48 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 2 · 32 mi
- MercedesCategory 2 · 56 mi
- La VillaCategory 2 · 47 mi
- ProgresoCategory 2 · 62 mi
- EdcouchCategory 2 · 45 mi
- ElsaCategory 2 · 49 mi
- DonnaCategory 1 · 58 mi
- AltonCategory 1 · 45 mi
- EdinburgCategory 1 · 48 mi
- WeslacoCategory 1 · 51 mi
- McallenCategory 1 · 57 mi
- PharrCategory 1 · 58 mi
- San JuanCategory 1 · 58 mi
- AlamoCategory 1 · 59 mi
- MissionCategory 1 · 59 mi
- PenitasCategory 1 · 62 mi
- La JoyaCategory 1 · 64 mi
- Sullivan CityCategory 1 · 65 mi
- HidalgoCategory 1 · 65 mi
- Rio Grande CityCategory 1 · 61 mi
- TaftCategory 1 · 72 mi
- KingsvilleCategory 1 · 27 mi
- FalfurriasCategory 1 · 1 mi
- BishopCategory 1 · 36 mi
- RobstownCategory 1 · 50 mi
- PremontTropical storm · 11 mi
- OdemTropical storm · 62 mi
- SintonTropical storm · 71 mi
- AliceTropical storm · 32 mi
- RomaTropical storm · 71 mi
- SkidmoreTropical storm · 74 mi
- MathisTropical storm · 62 mi
- SandiaTropical storm · 56 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 46 mi
- HebbronvilleTropical storm · 22 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 19 mi
- George WestTropical storm · 60 mi
- ZapataTropical storm · 54 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 27 mi
- LaredoTropical storm · 42 mi
- CotullaTropical storm · 63 mi
- Three RiversTropical storm · 72 mi
Other storms of the 1999 season
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.