Hurricane Dolly (2008) amounts of over 16 inches (410 mm) of rain in isolated areas . Rip currents throughout the entire Gulf Coast resulted in one person drowning off the Florida Panhandle. There were no deaths as a result of Hurricane Dolly in Texas; it did, however, cause an estimated $1.3 billion in damage. An additional $300 million in damage occurred in Mexico. The remnants of the storm caused two deaths in New Mexico. An area of disturbed weather formed over the tropical Atlantic about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) east of the southern Windward Islands on July 13 in association with a strong
Hurricane Dolly (2008) government announced a state of alert the next day. On July 23, Coahuila authorities emitted an orange alert due to the risk of flooding from Dolly's remnants, and activated 2,000 military and police to the state. In Guatemala, the rain caused landslides and at least 17 deaths, with 12 members of one family killed near La Unión in the department of Zacapa and four from another family in San Pedro Soloma, Huehuetenango. One more person drowned after trying to cross the flooded Punilá River in La Unión. Before it made landfall, Dolly caused heavy rain in western Cuba, primarily in