The following is a sample of the tropical systems of 2005. This is the type of information that
you will want to put in the Results Section of your paper. The names are the same due to the
rotation of names but, again, this data is from the 2005 season. Do not include this information in
your paper.
Tropical Storm Arlene. The first named storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
developed June 8 as a tropical depression SW of Cuba at 17.2o N 84o W. On June 11, the center
of Tropical Storm Arlene moved inland just west of Pensacola, Florida. Minimum pressure was
991mb with maximum winds near 80km/h. Arlene dropped less than 6 inches of rain,
temporarily flooded a few roads and caused scattered power outages affecting about 11,000
customers.
Tropical Storm Bret. On June 28, the second system developed approximately 130km
NE of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Bret was named a tropical storm on the morning of June 29 with
minimum pressure of 1005mb and sustained winds near 60km/h. Tropical Storm Bret was
downgraded to a tropical depression late on the 29th after moving inland from the Gulf coast of
Mexico about 750km south of the Texas border.
Tropical Strom Cindy. Cindy developed on July 3 in the northwest Caribbean Sea near
18.5o N 87o W with movement NW at 15km/h. On July 4, a tropical storm watch was issued for
the New Orleans area. Tropical Storm Cindy, near hurricane strength, moved onshore the
evening of July 5 with a minimum pressure of 997mb, pelting the Louisiana coast with 150km/h
winds, horizontal rains and intermittent squalls.
Oil companies had evacuated their Gulf of Mexico rigs due to Tropical Storm Cindy, while
tourists and residents on the vulnerable Louisiana and Mississippi coasts were advised to head
inland as the storm brought up to 25cm of rain. Remnants of Cindy delivered rain as far north as
New York on July 8.
Hurricane Dennis. Tropical Depression Four developed just one day after Tropical Storm
Cindy. The disturbance was located in the Southeast Caribbean Sea. By the morning of July 5,
the storm was classified as a tropical storm. Rapidly gaining strength, Dennis became a
hurricane on Wednesday July 6 approximately 500km ESE of Kingston, Jamaica at 16.1o N
72.5o W, moving WNW at 22km/h. Growing rapidly, on July 8 Hurricane Dennis slams into
Cuba’s southern coast as a large hurricane, killing 16 people. By the morning of July 10 the
center of Dennis was 250km south of Panama City, FL as a category 4 hurricane making it the
most powerful July hurricane on record. Sustained wind speeds were 230km/h, pressure of
932mb, with associated storm surge of 5 to 6 meters. More than 500,000 people evacuated the
central Gulf Coast from Destin, FL to Mobile, AL. Hurricane Dennis made landfall at
approximately four o’clock that afternoon at Pensacola Beach, FL as a category 3 storm with
wind gusts exceeding 200km/h. Additionally, several tornadoes formed along the northeastern
side of the storm. Once on land Dennis’ strength diminished rapidly and by July 11, the National
Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to tropical depression status. Remnants of Dennis
dropped rain throughout the Mid-West dropping 30cm of rain in the Ohio River Valley by the
15th of July. Dennis caused at least 71 deaths in the United States and Caribbean, and caused $59 billion in damage, about half of it in the Caribbean. Damage was not as high as expected in the
United States, mainly because Dennis was more compact and moved through quicker than
initially forecast.