2:00 am AST (0600 UTC) – Hurricane Edouard reaches its peak intensity of 145 mph (230 km/h) winds and a pressure of 933 mbar, making it the strongest storm of the season.12:00 am MDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Dolly dissipates over the eastern North Pacific Ocean.8:00 pm AST (0000 UTC August 25) – Hurricane Edouard reaches Category 4 intensity. 2:00 pm AST (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Edouard reaches Category 3 intensity.8:00 am AST (1200 UTC) – Hurricane Edouard reaches Category 2 intensity.7:00 pm CDT (0000 UTC August 24) – Tropical Storm Dolly weakens into a tropical depression.1:00 pm CDT (1800 UTC) – Hurricane Dolly weakens into a tropical storm.8:00 am AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical depression Six forms just southeast of the Cape Verde Islands.8:00 am AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Storm Edouard strengthens into Hurricane Edouard.7:00 am CDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Storm Dolly regains hurricane status as it makes its second landfall midway between Tampico, Tamaulipas, and Tuxpan, Veracruz, with 80 mph (130 km/h) winds.2:00 am AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical depression Five, which formed about 100 miles (160 km) west of the Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border on August 19, strengthens into Tropical Storm Edouard.7:00 pm CDT (0000 UTC August 22) – Tropical Depression Dolly regains tropical storm status.7:00 am CDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Storm Dolly weakens into a tropical depression.7:00 pm CDT (0000 UTC August 21) – Hurricane Dolly weakens into a tropical storm.12:30 pm CDT (1730 UTC) – Tropical Storm Dolly strengthens into Hurricane Dolly as it makes its first landfall near Chetumal, Quintana Roo with 75 mph (120 km/h) winds.2:00 pm AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical depression Five forms about 100 miles (160 km) west of the Senegal/ Guinea-Bissau border.2:00 pm EDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical depression Four strengthens into Tropical Storm Dolly.2:00 am EDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical depression Four forms in the northwestern Caribbean Sea.Hurricane Dolly near its landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula All three storms had their names retired by the World Meteorological Organization in the spring of 1997, and were replaced with Cristobal, Fay, and Hanna for the 2002 season, respectively. Hurricane Hortense dropped torrential rainfall on southwestern Puerto Rico and the eastern Dominican Republic, killing 21 people and leaving behind $127 million (1996 USD $174 million 2009 USD) in damage. Hurricane Fran caused $3.2 billion (1996 USD $4 billion 2009 USD) worth of damage in the United States, mostly in North Carolina, and killed 26 people. Hurricane Cesar (later known as Hurricane Douglas in the Eastern Pacific basin) was the deadliest storm of the season it killed at least 51 people and caused severe damage in northern Colombia and southern Central America. The season's most destructive storms were Hurricane Cesar, Hurricane Fran, and Hurricane Hortense. The season officially began on June 1, 1996, and ended on November 30 that same year. The timeline also includes information that was not operationally released, meaning that information from post-storm reviews by the National Hurricane Center, such as information on a storm that was not operationally warned on, has been included. This timeline documents all the storm formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, as well as dissipation. These major hurricanes were Bertha, Edouard, Fran, Hortense, Isidore, and Lili. The 1996 Atlantic hurricane season had 13 named storms, of which 9 became hurricanes and 6 became major hurricanes (hurricanes that are classified as Category 3 or higher).
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