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Hurricane Dolly was a Category 1 hurricane that struck Mexico. The storm killed 14 people and left many homeless. The fourth named storm and the third hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season, Dolly developed from a tropical wave in the west-central Caribbean on August 19. Becoming a tropical storm shortly thereafter, the system was then named ''Dolly'' by the National Hurricane Center. Dolly continued to strengthen further, and became a minimal hurricane before making landfall near Chetumal, Quintana Roo on August 20. Dolly rapidly weakened over the Yucatán Peninsula, and was only a tropical depression after being inland for about 24 hours. Dolly continued out into the Bay of Campeche, and it regained hurricane strength before a second landfall near Tampico, Tamaulipas on August 23. Dolly again rapidly weakened over Mexico, but the system reached the Pacific Ocean before dissipating on August 26. Fourteen people were reported dead in Mexico. Hundreds of homes were destroyed, and large areas of crop land were flooded. A monetary estimate of the damage is not available. ==Meteorological history== Dolly formed from a tropical wave which moved off the west coast of Africa and entered the Caribbean between August 9 and August 18. The tropical wave was slightly disorganized until reports from hurricane hunter aircraft and ship suggested that the system reached tropical depression status on August 19. Six hours later, the depression became a tropical storm and was named Dolly, the fourth named storm of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season.〔National Hurricane Center. (Hurricane Dolly. ) Retrieved on 2007-01-22.〕 Dolly strengthened on August 19 and August 20 as it moved west-northwest.〔 Convection became more organized before the storm made landfall on Yucatán Peninsula northeast of Chetumal as a minimal hurricane. During its 24 hour passage over the Yucatán, Dolly weakened to a tropical storm, but restrengthened back into a hurricane over the Bay of Campeche. Dolly retained hurricane status with peak winds at 80 mph (135 km/h) and a pressure of 989 mbar before making its final landfall between Tuxpan, Veracruz, and Tampico, Tamaulipas, on August 23.〔 Dolly weakened to a tropical depression as it crossed central Mexico and dissipated when entering the Pacific basin on August 26.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hurricane Dolly (1996)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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