NHC AL141999 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Jose (1999)
October 17, 1999 – October 25, 1999
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Jose peaked at Category 2 with 98 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 27 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Jose in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Jose from October 17, 1999 to October 25, 1999; its peak was 98 mph (Category 2). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 27 US cities, all in Puerto Rico. The strongest pass was 68 mph (tropical storm) 49 miles from Vieques, PR.
- Peak strength
- Category 2
- Cities within 75 mi
- 27
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
98 mph
when closest
Cities Jose passed near, strongest first
Puerto Rico (27)
- ViequesTropical storm · 49 mi
- FajardoTropical storm · 49 mi
- CeibaTropical storm · 52 mi
- NaguaboTropical storm · 58 mi
- Punta SantiagoTropical storm · 62 mi
- HumacaoTropical storm · 65 mi
- Las PiedrasTropical storm · 66 mi
- YabucoaTropical storm · 73 mi
- LuquilloTropical storm · 50 mi
- Rio GrandeTropical storm · 55 mi
- CanovanasTropical storm · 59 mi
- JuncosTropical storm · 66 mi
- GuraboTropical storm · 67 mi
- CaguasTropical storm · 72 mi
- San LorenzoTropical storm · 72 mi
- LoizaTropical storm · 55 mi
- CarolinaTropical storm · 60 mi
- San JuanTropical storm · 63 mi
- Trujillo AltoTropical storm · 64 mi
- GuaynaboTropical storm · 68 mi
- Aguas BuenasTropical storm · 75 mi
- CatanoTropical storm · 65 mi
- Toa BajaTropical storm · 68 mi
- BayamonTropical storm · 70 mi
- Toa AltaTropical storm · 73 mi
- DoradoTropical storm · 71 mi
- Vega AltaTropical storm · 74 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.