Hurricane Dolly was the fourth named storm and fourth hurricane of the 1968 Atlantic hurricane season. Dolly was one of four tropical cyclones to strike Florida during the 1968 season and one of only two tropical cyclones to form in August 1968. Dolly had developed on August 10 from a tropical wave near Andros Island within the Bahamas. Only six hours thereafter, the newly formed tropical depression made landfall in south Florida, before re-emerging into the Atlantic Ocean near Melbourne, Florida. Intensification was initially slow, due to a frontal boundary attempting to absorb the tropical depression. Rapid strengthening occurred after released from the influence of the frontal system, causing it to strengthen into a tropical storm and hurricane within twelve hours. Several oscillations