NHC AL051968 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Dolly (1968)
August 10, 1968 – August 17, 1968
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Dolly peaked at Category 1 with 86 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 102 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Dolly in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Dolly from August 10, 1968 to August 17, 1968; its peak was 86 mph (Category 1). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 102 US cities, all in Florida. The strongest pass was 40 mph (tropical storm) less than a mile from Indian Harbour Beach, FL.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 102
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
86 mph
when closest
Cities Dolly passed near, strongest first
Florida (102)
- Indian Harbour BeachTropical storm · overhead
- IndialanticTropical storm · overhead
- Cocoa BeachTropical storm · 2 mi
- Cape CanaveralTropical storm · 2 mi
- MelbourneTropical storm · 5 mi
- Merritt IslandTropical storm · 7 mi
- RockledgeTropical storm · 9 mi
- CocoaTropical storm · 13 mi
- TitusvilleTropical storm · 17 mi
- Oak HillTropical storm · 21 mi
- MimsTropical storm · 22 mi
- HarmonyTropical storm · 25 mi
- EdgewaterTropical storm · 25 mi
- New Smyrna BeachTropical storm · 28 mi
- SebastianTropical storm · 29 mi
- FellsmereTropical storm · 30 mi
- South DaytonaTropical storm · 34 mi
- ChuluotaTropical storm · 35 mi
- Daytona BeachTropical storm · 36 mi
- OsteenTropical storm · 36 mi
- GenevaTropical storm · 36 mi
- Port OrangeTropical storm · 36 mi
- Ormond BeachTropical storm · 39 mi
- Vero BeachTropical storm · 40 mi
- Saint CloudTropical storm · 40 mi
- OviedoTropical storm · 41 mi
- Flagler BeachTropical storm · 43 mi
- DeltonaTropical storm · 44 mi
- Lake HelenTropical storm · 45 mi
- Winter SpringsTropical storm · 45 mi
- SanfordTropical storm · 46 mi
- Winter ParkTropical storm · 47 mi
- CasselberryTropical storm · 47 mi
- OrlandoTropical storm · 48 mi
- Fern ParkTropical storm · 49 mi
- DebaryTropical storm · 49 mi
- Orange CityTropical storm · 49 mi
- Palm CoastTropical storm · 49 mi
- Lake MaryTropical storm · 50 mi
- MaitlandTropical storm · 50 mi
- DelandTropical storm · 50 mi
- KissimmeeTropical storm · 51 mi
- LongwoodTropical storm · 52 mi
- Altamonte SpringsTropical storm · 52 mi
- De Leon SpringsTropical storm · 53 mi
- BunnellTropical storm · 53 mi
- Fort PierceTropical storm · 54 mi
- GothaTropical storm · 59 mi
- WindermereTropical storm · 59 mi
- ApopkaTropical storm · 59 mi
- OcoeeTropical storm · 59 mi
- PiersonTropical storm · 60 mi
- CelebrationTropical storm · 61 mi
- PaisleyTropical storm · 61 mi
- SorrentoTropical storm · 62 mi
- Haines CityTropical storm · 63 mi
- Winter GardenTropical storm · 63 mi
- St AugustineTropical storm · 63 mi
- DundeeTropical storm · 63 mi
- DavenportTropical storm · 63 mi
and 42 more
Other storms of the 1968 season
- AbbyCategory 1 · 315 cities
- BrendaCategory 1 · 151 cities
- CandyTropical storm · 161 cities
- Unnamed (AL161968)Tropical storm · 1,369 cities
- GladysCategory 2 · 272 cities
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.