NHC AL161999 · Atlantic basin
Hurricane Lenny (1999)
November 13, 1999 – November 23, 1999
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Lenny peaked at Category 4 with 155 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 1 US cities, 1 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Lenny in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Lenny for 10 days, from November 13, 1999 to November 23, 1999. Its first position, at 16.7°N 81.6°W, records it as a tropical depression; its last, at 18.5°N 52.8°W, as a tropical depression. It reached tropical-storm strength on November 14, hurricane strength on November 15 and major-hurricane strength on November 17. Its peak was 155 mph (135 knots), Category 4, on November 17, and its lowest central pressure was 933 millibars on November 17. It spent about 5 days at hurricane strength. HURDAT2 marks 5 landfalls for it, none within 50 miles of a US city on this site, so the figures below are its closest approaches. Its centre passed within 75 miles of 1 US city, all in Puerto Rico. The strongest pass was 155 mph (Category 4) 66 miles from Vieques, PR. All of them had it at hurricane strength at the closest point, 1 at major-hurricane strength.
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- Cities within 75 mi
- 1
- At hurricane strength
- 1
- States
- 1
155 mph
when closest
Cities Lenny passed near, strongest first
Puerto Rico (1)
- ViequesCategory 4 · 66 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.