NHC CP011959 · Central Pacific basin
Hurricane Dot (1959)
August 1, 1959 – August 8, 1959
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Dot peaked at Category 4 with 150 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 21 US cities, 17 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Dot in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Dot from August 1, 1959 to August 8, 1959; its peak was 150 mph (Category 4). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 21 US cities, all in Hawaii. The strongest pass was 92 mph (Category 1) 61 miles from Waianae, HI; the centre came closest to Princeville, HI, 1 mile away.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 21
- At hurricane strength
- 17
- States
- 1
150 mph
when closest
Cities Dot passed near, strongest first
Hawaii (21)
- WaianaeCategory 1 · 61 mi
- KapoleiCategory 1 · 63 mi
- Ewa BeachCategory 1 · 67 mi
- WaialuaCategory 1 · 68 mi
- WaipahuCategory 1 · 69 mi
- WahiawaCategory 1 · 71 mi
- MililaniCategory 1 · 71 mi
- Pearl CityCategory 1 · 72 mi
- AieaCategory 1 · 74 mi
- HaleiwaCategory 1 · 73 mi
- KoloaCategory 1 · 1 mi
- EleeleCategory 1 · 5 mi
- HanapepeCategory 1 · 6 mi
- LihueCategory 1 · 8 mi
- KekahaCategory 1 · 14 mi
- KalaheoCategory 1 · 1 mi
- WaimeaCategory 1 · 14 mi
- KapaaTropical storm · 10 mi
- AnaholaTropical storm · 12 mi
- PrincevilleTropical storm · overhead
- KilaueaTropical storm · 6 mi
Other storms of the 1959 season
- ArleneTropical storm · 121 cities
- Unnamed (AL031959)Category 1 · 190 cities
- CindyCategory 1 · 968 cities
- DebraCategory 1 · 133 cities
- Unnamed (AL121959)Tropical storm · 15 cities
- GracieCategory 4 · 441 cities
- IreneTropical storm · 69 cities
- JudithCategory 1 · 113 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.