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Hurricane Dennis 2005

Category 4 hurricane · Atlantic · July 4 to July 13, 2005

Dennis has landfall records in 3 different places: Grenada, Cuba and Florida. It came ashore in Cuba as a Category 4 hurricane on July 8, 2005, with 140 mph winds. Its winds climbed 60 mph in the 24 hours to July 8. The name Dennis is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired Atlantic hurricane names.

Track of Dennis (2005) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N40°N100°W90°W80°W70°W60°W50°WGrenada, 35 mphCuba, 140 mphFlorida, 120 mphPeak 150 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 3Category 400 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Dennis (2005) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 504080120160Jul 5Jul 7Jul 9Jul 11Jul 13Jul 15Jul 17mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) 65 miles east of Saint George's, Grenada
  2. Landfall Grenada: depression, 35 mph, 1010 mb
  3. Tropical storm 180 miles north-northeast of Maiquetía, Vargas, Venezuela
  4. Hurricane 145 miles south-southwest of Jacmel, Sud-Est, Haiti
  5. Major hurricane 30 miles northeast of Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica
  6. Landfall Cuba
  7. Peak, 150 mph 70 miles south of Sancti Spíritus, Cuba; lowest pressure 930 mb
  8. Landfall Cuba: Category 4, 140 mph, 941 mb
  9. Landfall Florida: Category 3, 120 mph, 946 mb
  10. No longer tropical (low) near Bloomington, Indiana
  11. Last record 40 miles south-southwest of North Bay, Ontario, Canada

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind150 mph · tied 57th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure930 mb · tied 60th of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy18.8 · 267th of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone8.5 days · tied 393rd of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

In the 2005 season

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Storm 4 of 31 in 2005, hurricane 2 of 15; it formed after Cindy and before Emily. Dennis produced 8% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy and ranks fifth by peak wind. See the season.

Places the center passed

The center came within 50 miles of at least 8 towns or cities of 10,000 people or more while the system was tropical. Distances are to the interpolated track line, not the storm's edge.

PlaceClosestWind thenDate
Saint George's, Grenada4 mi35 mphJuly 4
Pensacola, Florida6 mi115 mphJuly 10
Havana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba8 mi90 mphJuly 9
Tupelo, Mississippi10 mi30 mphJuly 11
Güines, La Habana, Cuba10 mi105 mphJuly 9
Cienfuegos, Cuba14 mi140 mphJuly 8
Jackson, Tennessee18 mi25 mphJuly 11
Meridian, Mississippi19 mi35 mphJuly 11

Every storm within 50 miles of Havana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba

Similar landfalls in Cuba

Storms whose strongest landfall record in Cuba came closest to Dennis's 140 mph:

All 56 storms with a landfall record in Cuba

Also peaked at 150 mph

Of 27 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time: