Hurricane Dennis

This Hurricane Dennis Summary was compiled mainly by the Mobile National Weather Service office. All times listed here are Central Time. The final National Weather Service summary includes addtitional photo galleries, radar loops and links to more aerial photos.
The landfall of Hurricane Dennis was 2:25 pm Sunday, July 10, 2005 near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 Hurricane. Winds were between 115mph and 120mph. The eye was less than 10 miles across.

Highest Wind Gusts
NAVARRE Peak gust from NE at 121 mph at 219 pm
near PENSACOLA Airport Peak gust from NW at 96 mph at 247 pm
MARY ESTHER Peak gust 102 mph
SEMMES Peak gust from N at 44 mph at 400 pm
LILLIAN ALABAMA Peak gust 44 mph at 129 pm
VALPARAISO (VPS) Peak gust 83 mph at 240 pm
PENSACOLA NAS (NPA) Peak gust 58 mph at 254 pm
NICEVILLE FLORIDA Peak gust 70 mph
PENSACOLA (WEAR-TV) Peak gust from W at 53 mph
MOBILE (USS ALABAMA) Peak gust from N at 77 mph at 248 pm
LOXLEY ALABAMA Peak gust from N at 50 mph at 245 pm
CRESTVIEW (CEW) Peak gust from SE at 58 mph at 320 pm
MOBILE (MOB) Peak gust from N at 48 mph at 100 pm
MOBILE BROOKLEY (BFM) Peak gust from N at 44 mph at 1158 am
MOBILE WKRG-TV Peak gust from N at 45 mph at 351 pm
CRESTVIEW (CEW) Peak gust from SE at 58 mph at 320 pm
PENSACOLA (PNS) Peak gust from W at 93 mph

Some Two-Day rain totals (ending at 1159 pm July 10)...
MOBILE (MOB) 3.71
SEMMES 4.25
CRESTVIEW (CEW) 3.22
BAKER 4.22
BREWTON 3.04
FOWL RIVER 3.65
MILLIGAN 4.26
MILTON 7.01
MOLINO 4.23
MILLERS FERRY 3.82
MUNSON 6.93
BREWTON 3.04
LITTLE RIVER 7.10

A Few Storm Tides
DESTIN EAST PASS 4.6 feet
POINT CADET 3.5 feet
CEDAR POINT 3.5 feet
PERDIDO PASS 4.1 feet
SANTA ROSA SOUND 5.0 feet
PENSACOLA 5.5 feet
DAUPHIN ISLAND 4.0 feet
FORT MORGAN 7.1 feet

Like all landfalling hurricanes Dennis had an impact on the shoreline of the Florida panhandle and Baldwin County. The US Geological Survey has an extensive survey of Dennis' effects to the landscape with before and after images.

Early indications are that hurricane dennis caused quite a bit of damage in the coastal counties of escambia...Santa Rosa and Okaloosa in florida. Most inland counties had many trees and power lines blown down. Highway 98 between Fort Walton beach and Destin was again washed out by high water. Possible tornadoes were reported in Santa Rosa County in Florida and in Escambia County in Alabama but they cannot be confirmed until damage surveys are completed.

Street flooding was reported across most of southwest Alabama.