NHC AL051999 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Dennis (1999)
August 24, 1999 – September 8, 1999
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Dennis peaked at Category 2 with 104 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 155 US cities, 1 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Dennis in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Dennis from August 24, 1999 to September 8, 1999; its peak was 104 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks a landfall within 50 miles of a US city on this site: on September 4 at 69 mph (tropical storm), 9 miles from Beaufort, NC. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 155 US cities, all in North Carolina. The strongest pass was 101 mph (Category 2) 74 miles from Kure Beach, NC; the centre came closest to Hookerton, NC, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 155
- At hurricane strength
- 1
- States
- 1
104 mph
when closest
Cities Dennis passed near, strongest first
North Carolina (155)
- Kure BeachCategory 2 · 74 mi
- BeaufortTropical storm · 7 mi
- Morehead CityTropical storm · 13 mi
- Atlantic BeachTropical storm · 16 mi
- NewportTropical storm · 15 mi
- Emerald IsleTropical storm · 25 mi
- OrientalTropical storm · 6 mi
- Cherry PointTropical storm · 9 mi
- HavelockTropical storm · 9 mi
- BayboroTropical storm · 13 mi
- SwansboroTropical storm · 27 mi
- GrantsboroTropical storm · 3 mi
- HubertTropical storm · 30 mi
- ColumbiaTropical storm · 69 mi
- AuroraTropical storm · 18 mi
- Midway ParkTropical storm · 32 mi
- BelhavenTropical storm · 37 mi
- Camp LejeuneTropical storm · 38 mi
- Sneads FerryTropical storm · 47 mi
- New BernTropical storm · 3 mi
- MaysvilleTropical storm · 20 mi
- Tarawa TerraceTropical storm · 33 mi
- Holly RidgeTropical storm · 54 mi
- HampsteadTropical storm · 61 mi
- JacksonvilleTropical storm · 33 mi
- PinetownTropical storm · 32 mi
- RoperTropical storm · 58 mi
- Castle HayneTropical storm · 73 mi
- VanceboroTropical storm · 6 mi
- Maple HillTropical storm · 46 mi
- PlymouthTropical storm · 50 mi
- Rocky PointTropical storm · 66 mi
- Cove CityTropical storm · 6 mi
- TrentonTropical storm · 17 mi
- ChocowinityTropical storm · 19 mi
- WashingtonTropical storm · 25 mi
- RichlandsTropical storm · 31 mi
- JamesvilleTropical storm · 40 mi
- EdentonTropical storm · 68 mi
- BurgawTropical storm · 61 mi
- GrimeslandTropical storm · 18 mi
- BeulavilleTropical storm · 36 mi
- CurrieTropical storm · 74 mi
- GriftonTropical storm · 1 mi
- AydenTropical storm · 7 mi
- Deep RunTropical storm · 21 mi
- Pink HillTropical storm · 28 mi
- WilliamstonTropical storm · 38 mi
- WallaceTropical storm · 52 mi
- WindsorTropical storm · 54 mi
- WillardTropical storm · 59 mi
- AtkinsonTropical storm · 71 mi
- KinstonTropical storm · 10 mi
- WintervilleTropical storm · 12 mi
- GreenvilleTropical storm · 17 mi
- TeacheyTropical storm · 52 mi
- ColerainTropical storm · 67 mi
- HookertonTropical storm · overhead
- RobersonvilleTropical storm · 32 mi
- KenansvilleTropical storm · 38 mi
and 95 more
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.