page_title: Timeline of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season / Timeline of storms / August
caption_attribution_description: This image of Tropical Storm Chris was captured at 1724 UTC as it passed near the northern Leeward Islands. At the time, winds were 65 mph and the pressure was 1001 mb.
context_page_description: The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the north Atlantic Ocean. Following the intense activity in the 2005 season, forecasts had initially predicted that the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season would be only slightly less active. However, activity was slowed by a rapidly forming El Niño event in 2006, the presence of the Saharan Air Layer over the tropical Atlantic, and the steady presence of a robust secondary high-pressure area to the Azores high centered on Bermuda.
  The season officially began on June 1, 2006, and lasted until November 30, 2006, dates that conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones develop in the Atlantic basin. The first storm in the calendar year was Tropical Storm Zeta, which arose in December 2005 and persisted until early January 2006, only the second event on record that a storm spanned two calendar years in the Atlantic. The first in-season storm to form was Tropical Storm Alberto on June 10; the last, Hurricane Isaac became a tropical storm on September 28, and dissipated on October 2.
context_section_description: August 1
  2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Three strengthens into Tropical Storm Chris.
  August 3
  2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Storm Chris weakens to a tropical depression.
  August 4
  2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Chris weakens into a remnant low.
  August 21
  2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Four forms 225 nautical miles (260 miles, 415 km) south-southeast of Praia, Cape Verde.
  August 22
  8 p.m. AST (0000 UTC August 23) – Tropical Depression Four strengthens into Tropical Storm Debby.
  August 24
  2 p.m. AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Five forms in the Caribbean Sea about 40 nautical miles (45 miles, 75 km) north-northwest of Grenada.
  August 25
  8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Five strengthens into Tropical Storm Ernesto.
  August 26
  2 a.m. AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Debby weakens to a tropical depression.
  8 a.m. AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Debby weakens into a low.
  August 27
  2 a.m EDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthens into Hurricane Ernesto.
  8 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC) – Hurricane Ernesto weakens to a tropical storm.
  August 28
  7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 UTC) – Tropical Storm Ernesto makes a first landfall in Cuba at Playa Cazonal with 40 mph (65 km/h) winds.
  August 29
  11 p.m. EDT (0300 UTC) – Tropical Storm Ernesto makes a second landfall at Plantation Key, Florida, with 45 mph (70 km/h) winds.
  August 30
  1 a.m. EDT (0500 UTC) – Tropical Storm Ernesto makes a third landfall in southwestern Miami-Dade County, Florida with 45 mph (70 km/h).
  August 31
  11:40 p.m. EDT (0340 UTC September 1) – Tropical Storm Ernesto makes a fourth landfall at Oak Island, North Carolina, with 70 mph (110 km/h).
caption: Tropical Storm Chris
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