Hurricane Josephine was the tenth named storm and fifth hurricane of the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season. Josephine developed as a Cape Verde hurricane on September 21 west of the Cape Verde Islands. Josephine did not attain hurricane status until October 4. It took the cyclone a total of 13¾ days to attain hurricane status, which is the second longest period for an Atlantic tropical cyclone to go from tropical depression status to hurricane status, behind only Hurricane Arlene of 1987, which in itself took 14.5 days. Josephine caused no damage and no deaths.