NHC AL042008 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Dolly (2008)
July 20, 2008 – July 27, 2008
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Dolly peaked at Category 2 with 98 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 48 US cities, 16 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Dolly in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Dolly from July 20, 2008 to July 27, 2008; its peak was 98 mph (Category 2). HURDAT2 marks 2 landfalls within 50 miles of a US city on this site, the first on July 23 at 86 mph (Category 1), 20 miles from South Padre Island, TX. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 48 US cities, all in Texas. The strongest pass was 91 mph (Category 1) 12 miles from South Padre Island, TX; the centre came closest to Raymondville, TX, less than a mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 48
- At hurricane strength
- 16
- States
- 1
98 mph
when closest
Cities Dolly passed near, strongest first
Texas (48)
- South Padre IslandCategory 1 · 12 mi
- Port IsabelCategory 1 · 17 mi
- Los FresnosCategory 1 · 21 mi
- OlmitoCategory 1 · 27 mi
- BrownsvilleCategory 1 · 32 mi
- Rio HondoCategory 1 · 12 mi
- San BenitoCategory 1 · 23 mi
- HarlingenCategory 1 · 18 mi
- LyfordCategory 1 · 6 mi
- La FeriaCategory 1 · 24 mi
- RaymondvilleCategory 1 · overhead
- Santa RosaCategory 1 · 16 mi
- La VillaCategory 1 · 16 mi
- MercedesCategory 1 · 24 mi
- ProgresoCategory 1 · 30 mi
- DonnaCategory 1 · 28 mi
- EdcouchTropical storm · 14 mi
- ElsaTropical storm · 18 mi
- WeslacoTropical storm · 21 mi
- San JuanTropical storm · 28 mi
- AlamoTropical storm · 29 mi
- EdinburgTropical storm · 19 mi
- PharrTropical storm · 29 mi
- HidalgoTropical storm · 36 mi
- McallenTropical storm · 28 mi
- AltonTropical storm · 16 mi
- MissionTropical storm · 30 mi
- PenitasTropical storm · 32 mi
- La JoyaTropical storm · 34 mi
- Sullivan CityTropical storm · 34 mi
- Rio Grande CityTropical storm · 29 mi
- FalfurriasTropical storm · 32 mi
- RomaTropical storm · 40 mi
- KingsvilleTropical storm · 58 mi
- BishopTropical storm · 67 mi
- PremontTropical storm · 41 mi
- HebbronvilleTropical storm · 6 mi
- AliceTropical storm · 61 mi
- ZapataTropical storm · 28 mi
- San DiegoTropical storm · 46 mi
- Orange GroveTropical storm · 73 mi
- FreerTropical storm · 53 mi
- LaredoTropical storm · 2 mi
- CotullaTropical storm · 58 mi
- Carrizo SpringsTropical storm · 44 mi
- Eagle PassTropical storm · 63 mi
- DilleyTropical storm · 74 mi
- Crystal CityTropical storm · 55 mi
Other storms of the 2008 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.