Hurricane Bret
Aug 18, 1999 to Aug 25, 1999Peak 144 mph944 mb
Hurricane Bret passed within 50 miles of 14 counties in TX. It was strongest near Cameron County, TX, as a Category 4 on August 22, 1999.
- Major hurricane
- Hurricane
- Tropical storm
- Post-tropical
Hurricane Bret · 1999
How it happened
Follow the storm’s path, strength and milestones.
The storm
- Peak strength
- Category 4
- 144 mph, 125 kt
- Lowest pressure
- 944 mb
- Over the whole track
- Counties within 50 miles
- 14
- TX
- Counties within 100 miles
- 21
- TX
- Landfalls recorded
- 1
- Anywhere on the track
Every county it passed
Closest approach to each county boundary, with the storm’s strength at that moment.
| Kenedy County | TX | 0.0 | Category 3 |
| Duval County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Webb County | TX | 0.0 | Tropical storm |
| Brooks County | TX | 0.0 | Category 1 |
| Jim Wells County | TX | 0.9 | Tropical storm |
| Jim Hogg County | TX | 5.2 | Tropical storm |
| Kleberg County | TX | 7.9 | Category 1 |
| Willacy County | TX | 14.9 | Category 3 |
| Hidalgo County | TX | 16.0 | Category 1 |
| Zapata County | TX | 24.3 | Tropical storm |
| Cameron County | TX | 24.3 | Category 4 |
| Starr County | TX | 28.2 | Category 1 |
| Nueces County | TX | 31.8 | Category 1 |
| Live Oak County | TX | 42.2 | Tropical storm |
| San Patricio County | TX | 53.2 | Tropical storm |
| Bee County | TX | 66.7 | Tropical storm |
| Aransas County | TX | 68.5 | Category 3 |
| Refugio County | TX | 75.7 | Tropical storm |
| Calhoun County | TX | 86.9 | Category 3 |
| Karnes County | TX | 89.5 | Tropical storm |
| Goliad County | TX | 91.4 | Tropical storm |
Distances are measured from hourly positions interpolated between the National Hurricane Center’s six-hourly fixes to each county boundary. Strength is shown only where the storm was still tropical. Methodology.
National Hurricane Center HURDAT2. Storm totals cover the Atlantic and Northeast and Central Pacific basins.