Hurricane Dennis (1981)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 7, 1981 to August 22, 1981

Peak strength

Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)

Lowest pressure

995 mb (29.38 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

6.4

Fastest the center moved

26 kt (30 mph)

Identifier

AL101981

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 769 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 25.56 inches (649 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm ArleneNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Storm50 kt · 999 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm BretNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Storm60 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm CindyNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Storm50 kt · 1002 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane EmilyNorth Atlantic · 1981Cat 180 kt · 966 mb
• Hurricane FloydNorth Atlantic · 1981Cat 3100 kt · 975 mb
• Hurricane GertNorth Atlantic · 1981Cat 290 kt · 988 mb
• Hurricane HarveyNorth Atlantic · 1981Cat 4115 kt · 946 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane IreneNorth Atlantic · 1981Cat 3105 kt · 959 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm JoseNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Storm45 kt · 998 mb
• Hurricane KatrinaNorth Atlantic · 1981Cat 175 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1981Tropical Storm60 kt · 978 mb

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.

• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Dennis