Hurricane Dora (1999)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

August 5, 1999 to August 26, 1999

Peak strength

Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)

Lowest pressure

943 mb (27.85 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 348 km (216 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

43.1

Fastest the center moved

20 kt (23 mph)

Identifier

EP071999

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.

Deaths

0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

0

Property damage

none recorded

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

2 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

2 high surf.

• Hurricane AdrianEastern Pacific · 1999Cat 285 kt · 973 mb
• Hurricane BeatrizEastern Pacific · 1999Cat 3105 kt · 955 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1999Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1999Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm CalvinEastern Pacific · 1999Tropical Storm35 kt · 1005 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1999Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane EugeneEastern Pacific · 1999Cat 295 kt · 964 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1999Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm FernandaEastern Pacific · 1999Tropical Storm55 kt · 994 mb
• Hurricane TanyaEastern Pacific · 1999Cat 170 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1999Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane GregEastern Pacific · 1999Cat 165 kt · 986 mb
• Hurricane HilaryEastern Pacific · 1999Cat 165 kt · 987 mb
• Tropical Storm IrwinEastern Pacific · 1999Tropical Storm50 kt · 996 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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live
• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Dora