Hurricane Dorian was a powerful Atlantic hurricane that occurred in late summer 2019, during the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season.

Key dates

  • It developed from a tropical wave on August 24, 2019.
  • It became a named tropical storm on August 24, 2019.
  • It strengthened into a hurricane on August 28, 2019, near the U.S. Virgin Islands.
  • It reached its peak as a Category 5 hurricane on September 1, 2019, over the northern Bahamas.
  • It affected the southeastern U.S. (Georgia and South Carolina coasts) around September 5, 2019.
  • It made U.S. landfall at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on September 6, 2019, as a Category 2 storm.
  • It became a strong post‑tropical cyclone near Nova Scotia on September 7 and dissipated near Greenland by around September 10, 2019.

Simple takeaway

If you just need the quick scoop: Hurricane Dorian was “when?” — late August to early September 2019, with its most destructive impact on the Bahamas around September 1, 2019.

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