The name Dennis has been used for five
tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...
s in the
Atlantic Ocean
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, one in the Australian Region and for one extratropical
European windstorm
European windstorms are powerful extratropical cyclones which form as cyclone, cyclonic windstorms associated with areas of low atmospheric pressure. They can occur throughout the year, but are most frequent between October and March, with peak ...
. The name was
removed from reuse in the Atlantic after the 2005 season, and was replaced by
''Don'' for the 2011 season.
In the Atlantic:
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Hurricane Dennis (1981)
Hurricane Dennis caused severe flooding in Miami-Dade County, Florida, in August 1981. The tenth tropical cyclone and fourth named storm of the season, Dennis developed from a tropical wave well south of Cabo Verde on August 7. The de ...
– a Category 1 hurricane that made landfall in Cuba and then Florida, causing moderate damage.
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Tropical Storm Dennis (1987) – remained in the open ocean
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Tropical Storm Dennis (1993) – never threatened land
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Hurricane Dennis (1999)
Hurricane Dennis caused flooding in North Carolina and the Mid-Atlantic states in early September 1999, which would later be compounded by Hurricane Floyd. The fifth tropical cyclone of the season, Dennis developed from a tropical wave to t ...
– a Category 2 hurricane that grazed the Bahamas and stalled east of Outer Banks of North Carolina before making landfall there
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Hurricane Dennis
Hurricane Dennis was a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that briefly held the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever to form before August. Dennis was the fourth named storm of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane sea ...
(2005) – a potent and damaging storm that made landfall in Cuba twice as a Category 4 hurricane and once in Florida as a Category 3
In the Australian region:
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Cyclone Dennis (1996) – a weak Category 1 tropical cyclone that made landfall in Queensland
In Europe:
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Storm Dennis
Storm Dennis was a European windstorm which, in February 2020, became one of the most intense extratropical cyclones ever recorded, reaching a minimum central pressure of . The thirteenth named storm of the 2019–20 European windstorm season, ...
(2020) – an intense storm that affected the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia
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