Hurricane Dennis

Hurricane Dennis
	Dennis prior to peak intensity approaching the Florida Panhandle on July 10
Meteorological history
Formed	July 4, 2005
Remnant low	July 13, 2005
Dissipated	July 18, 2005
Category 4 major hurricane
	1-minute sustained (SSHWS/NWS)
Highest winds	150 mph (240 km/h)
Lowest pressure	930 mbar (hPa); 27.46 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities	88
Damage	$3.98 billion (2005 USD)
Areas affected	Windward Islands; Greater Antilles (particularly Cuba); Southeastern United States (particularly Florida); Great Lakes region; Canada;
	IBTrACS
	Part of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
	History Meteorological history; Effects Haiti; Jamaica; Cuba; United States Florida; Alabama; Georgia; Mississippi; ; Other wikis Commons: Dennis images;

Hurricane Dennis was an early-forming major hurricane in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico during the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Dennis was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the season. Forming in July, the hurricane became the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever to form before August at the time, a title it held for only six days before being surpassed by Hurricane Emily. It also became the second wettest tropical cyclone in the state of Kentucky only behind the 1960 Texas tropical storm.

Dennis made landfall in Cuba twice as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale and made landfall on the United States' Florida Panhandle as a Category 3 storm, coming less than a year after the devastating Hurricane Ivan. Dennis killed 88 people in total and was responsible for $3.98 billion (2005 USD) in damages, of which $2.5 billion (2005 USD) occurred in the United States.

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