The 1995 season

Tropical Storm Dean (1995)

Tropical Storm Dean peaked at 40 kt in the North Atlantic between July 28, 1995 and August 2, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Dean, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1995 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
July 28, 1995 to August 2, 1995
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.3
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
AL041995

Radar at KHGX as it neared land, Jul 31, 02:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Jul 31, 02:00Danbury, TX, 5 km away29.2N 95.3W40 kt (46 mph)999 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Rainfall

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 2,229 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 17.60 inches (447 mm).

StationTotalPosition
VERNON17.60 in (447 mm)34.15N 99.33W
GORDON 1 SW15.09 in (383 mm)32.53N 98.38W
BREMOND12.22 in (310 mm)31.17N 96.68W
GREAT SALT PLAINS DAM12.07 in (307 mm)36.75N 98.13W
QUANAH 5 SE11.56 in (294 mm)34.28N 99.75W
ANAHUAC11.33 in (288 mm)29.78N 94.67W
COPPER BREAKS STATE PK10.71 in (272 mm)34.12N 99.75W
CROWELL10.50 in (267 mm)34.00N 99.73W
LIPAN10.45 in (265 mm)32.52N 98.05W
GUTHRIE10.39 in (264 mm)33.62N 100.32W
MORGAN 3 WNW10.27 in (261 mm)32.02N 97.62W
MERIDIAN10.17 in (258 mm)31.93N 97.67W

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 28, 18:0026.2N 86.6W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 29, 00:0026.1N 87.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 29, 06:0026.2N 87.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 29, 12:0026.3N 88.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 29, 18:0026.5N 89.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 00:0026.9N 90.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 06:0027.6N 91.7W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 12:0028.1N 93.0W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 18:0028.6N 94.0W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0029.0N 95.0W40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 02:00 landfall29.2N 95.3W40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0029.5N 95.5W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 12:0030.0N 96.0W25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 18:0030.5N 96.5W20 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 00:0031.5N 97.0W20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 06:0032.0N 97.5W20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 12:0033.0N 98.5W20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 18:0033.0N 98.5W20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 00:0033.0N 98.5W20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 06:0033.0N 98.5W20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 12:0033.0N 98.5W20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 18:0033.0N 98.5W20 kt1004 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1995

What this means

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.

Sources

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.