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Hurricane Dolly was a Category 1 hurricane that struck Mexico. The storm killed 14 people and left...

Hurricane Dolly was a Category 1 hurricane that struck Mexico. The storm killed 14 people and left many homeless. Dolly was the fourth named storm and the third hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season. Dolly was named on August 19 in the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and Honduras. Dolly strengthened and was a minimal hurricane at landfall near Chetumal, Quintana Roo on August 20. Weakened to a tropical storm, Dolly continued out into the Bay of Campeche, and it regained hurricane strength before a second landfall near Tampico, Tamaulipas on August 23. The storm's remnants continued across Mexico before dissipating over the Pacific on the 26th. 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. Dolly formed from a tropical wave which moved off the west coast of Africa and entered the Caribbean Sea 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