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July 5 – 10 Tropical storm 70 (110) 989 Atlantic Canada: None None Chantal July 12 – 22 Tropical storm 70 (110) 991 Atlantic Canada None None Dean: July 28 – August 2 Tropical storm 45 (75) 999 Gulf Coast of the United States, Great Plains, Midwestern United States: $500,000 None Erin: July 31 – August 6 Category 2 hurricane
August 5–8 Tropical storm 50 (85) 999 Bermuda, New York: Minimal 0 (3) Dolly August 29 – September 4 Tropical storm 60 (95) 997 None None None Edouard: September 1–6 Tropical storm 65 (100) 1002 Florida: Minimal None Fay: September 5–8 Tropical storm 60 (95) 998 Texas, Northern Mexico $4.5 million None Seven September 7–8
The 1999 Atlantic hurricane season was a fairly active season, mostly due to a persistent La Niña that developed in the latter half of 1998.It had five Category 4 hurricanes – the highest number recorded in a single season in the Atlantic basin, previously tied in 1933 and 1961, and later tied in 2005 and 2020.
Activity decreased further in October, with the formation of only two systems, Tropical Storm Matthew and Subtropical Storm Nicole. The season then went dormant for over a month and a half, until Tropical Storm Otto developed on November 29. Otto was the final tropical cyclone of the season and degenerated into a remnant low pressure on December 3.
Philip J. Klotzbach, William M. Gray, and their associates at Colorado State University issue forecasts of hurricane activity each year, separately from NOAA.Klotzbach's team, formerly led by Gray, determined the average number of storms per season between 1950 and 2000 to be 9.6 tropical storms, 5.9 hurricanes, and 2.3 major hurricanes (storms exceeding Category 3 on the Saffir–Simpson ...
After the storm formed, further strengthening of Lili was gradual, first to tropical storm status on October 16 and then to hurricane status on October 17. The next day, Lili made landfall in Matanzas Province , Cuba with winds of 100 mph (160 km/h) and moved across the central portion of the island; [ 65 ] it was first hurricane to hit the ...
Four months later, on April 5, Tropical Storm Risk issued its updated forecast, continuing to call for an above-average season with 15.2 (±4.1) named storms, 7.5 (±2.8) hurricanes, 3.4 (±1.6) major hurricanes, and an ACE index of 131; the landfalling ACE index was once again forecast to be higher than normal.
The depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Ophelia on September 7 and briefly into a hurricane on September 9 while stalled off the east coast of Florida. Ophelia fluctuated between hurricane and tropical storm intensity for the next week as it meandered off the southeastern United States. Twice it attained peak winds of 85 mph (137 km/h).