All storm pages · 1999 Pacific season
Hurricane Dora 1999
Category 4 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · August 6 to August 23, 1999
Dora's best track runs 6,517 miles from first to last position, the fourth-longest path in the eastern and central Pacific database. No other storm of the 1999 eastern and central Pacific season matched its 140 mph peak; the season had 14 storms. It generated 47% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 1999 storm.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 335 miles south-southwest of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
- Tropical storm 375 miles south-southwest of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico
- Hurricane 555 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Major hurricane 765 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Peak 1,185 miles west-southwest of Ciudad Constitución, Baja California Sur, Mexico; lowest pressure 943 mb
- Last record (tropical depression) far out at sea, at 28.3°N, 167.6°E
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
In the 1999 season
Storm 7 of 14 in 1999, hurricane 3 of 6; it formed after Pacific Storm 6 of 1999 and before Eugene. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Hilo, Hawaii, 275 miles from the center on August 16 (Category 3 hurricane stage).
Also peaked at 140 mph
Of 37 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Blas (1998)943 mb, no landfall record
- Jimena (1997)942 mb, no landfall record
- Barbara (1995)940 mb, no landfall record
- Howard (2004)943 mb, no landfall record