page_title: Timeline of the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season / Timeline / August
caption_attribution_description: An unnamed tropical storm on August 10 at approximately 1422 UTC. This image was produced from data from NOAA-10, provided by NOAA.
context_page_description: The 1987 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual Atlantic hurricane season in the north Atlantic Ocean. It was a below-average season, having fewer named storms than in a normal year, that resulted in little impact throughout the Atlantic basin; the United States recorded no hurricane-related fatalities, making the 1987 season the fourth to do so since 1976. The season officially began on June 1, 1987 and ended November 30, 1987. These dates, adopted by convention, historically describe the period in each year when most systems form. Even so, a pre-season storm, Tropical Depression One, led to the season's starting on May 25. Storm activity ended several weeks early; the final storm of the season, Tropical Depression Fourteen, dissipated on November 4.
  The season had fourteen tropical depressions, of which seven intensified into tropical storms—an average season has ten tropical storms—three became hurricanes and one, Emily, became a major hurricane. The inactivity throughout the basin was linked to persistent, strong vertical wind shear; most of the season's storms were unable to intensify due to the shear, resulting in a low number of named storms and hurricanes.
context_section_description: August 9
  7:00 am CDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Two forms about 260 mi (420 km) southeast of Houston, Texas.
  1:00 pm CDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Two intensifies into a Tropical Storm but is not assigned a name.
  August 10
  1:00 am CDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Two makes landfall near Galveston, Texas with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h).
  1:00 am CDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Two weakens into a tropical depression.
  2:00 pm EDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Three forms over Andros Island in The Bahamas.
  8:00 pm EDT (0000 UTC August 11) – Tropical Depression Three tracks over the Berry Islands with winds of 30 mph (45 km/h).
  Exact time unknown – Tropical Depression Three makes landfall near Freeport on Grand Bahama Island.
  August 11
  2:00 pm EDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Three intensifies into Tropical Storm Arlene roughly 255 mi (215 km) northeast of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas.
  August 13
  11:00 am AST (1500 UTC) – Tropical Storm Arlene makes its closest approach to Bermuda, tracking roughly 45 mi (75 km) to the north with winds of 65 mph (100 km/h).
  8:00 pm AST (0000 UTC August 14) – Tropical Depression Four forms about 840 mi (1,350 km) east-southeast of Barbados.
  August 14
  8:00 pm EDT (0000 UTC August 15) – Tropical Depression Two re-emerges into the Gulf of Mexico.
  August 15
  8:00 am AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Four dissipates roughly 55 mi (90 km) northeast of the British Virgin Islands.
  2:00 pm EDT (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Two makes landfall in Gulf County, Florida with winds of 20 mph (25 km/h).
  August 17
  2:00 am EDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Two dissipates over southeastern Georgia.
  August 18
  2:00 am AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression Five forms roughly 170 mi (275 km) west of Dakar, Senegal.
  8:00 am AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Five tracks over the southern Cape Verde Islands with winds of 35 mph (55 km/h).
  2:00 pm AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Five strengthens into Tropical Storm Bret about 85 mi (140 km) west-northwest of Brava, Cape Verde.
  August 20
  2:00 am AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Bret reaches its peak intensity with winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) while located about 710 mi (1,145 km) west-northwest of Brava, Cape Verde.
  August 22
  2:00 am AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Arlene intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale while located about 815 mi (1,310 km) southwest of the Azores Islands.
  8:00 am AST (1200 UTC) – Hurricane Arlene reaches its peak intensity with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 987 mbar (hPa; 29.14 inHg).
  2:00 am AST (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Bret weakens into a tropical depression while located about 825 mi (1,330 km) northeast of Barbados.
  August 23
  8:00 pm AST (0000 UTC) – The National Hurricane Center (NHC) issues their final advisory on Hurricane Arlene as it transitions into an extratropical cyclone.
  August 24
  8:00 am AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Bret degenerates into a tropical wave over the central Atlantic Ocean.
  August 30
  8:00 am AST (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Six forms roughly 515 mi (830 km) west-southwest of Brava, Cape Verde.
caption: Tropical Storm Two on August 10
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