Hurricane Dean (2007)

A Cape Verde hurricane that formed on August 13, 2007, Dean took a west-northwest path from the eastern Atlantic through the Saint Lucia Channel and into the Caribbean Sea. Passing the Lesser Antilles as a Category 2, it wrecked agricultural crops, particularly in Martinique and Jamaica. The National Hurricane Center reported landfall at about 4:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 21, some 35 miles north of Chetumal on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, as a Category 5 with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph; the landfall point was rural and the storm missed major population centres, and it crossed the peninsula as a Category 3 with winds of 125 mph.

Formed (UTC)

2007-08-13

Dissipated (UTC)

2007-08-23

Peak Saffir-Simpson category

5

Peak wind (knots, 1-minute)

150

Basin it formed in

North Atlantic

IBTrACS storm page

ncics.org/ibtracs/index.php?name=v04r01-2007225N12331

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: hurricane, category 5, yucatan, mexico, lesser antilles, jamaica, landfall

Coordinates: 14.878019249339767, -64.12415399471813

Part of Atlantic hurricanes of category 4 and above in the 2000 to 2007 seasons

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