Hurricane Dennis (2005)

Dennis intensified into a hurricane on July 6 as it crossed the Caribbean Sea and briefly held the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane to form before August. It struck Cuba twice as a Category 4, including a landfall near Punta del Inglés with 140 mph winds, and weakened to Category 3 while crossing the peninsula. It then made a final landfall on Santa Rosa Island, Florida, as a Category 3, less than a year after Hurricane Ivan came ashore on the same panhandle. Damage in the United States was put at $2.23 to $2.5 billion with roughly an equal amount in the Caribbean, mostly in Cuba.

Formed (UTC)

2005-07-04

Dissipated (UTC)

2005-07-18

Peak Saffir-Simpson category

4

Peak wind (knots, 1-minute)

130

Basin it formed in

North Atlantic

Deaths, as sources state them

17 in the United States; at least 89 in the United States and Caribbean, 42 of them direct

IBTrACS storm page

ncics.org/ibtracs/index.php?name=v04r01-2005186N12299

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: hurricane, category 4, cuba, florida, caribbean, landfall

Coordinates: 26.26845461658562, -85.1347636932685

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

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