Hurricane Cesar–Douglas was one of the few tropical cyclones to survive the crossover from the Atlantic to east Pacific basin, and was the last to receive a new storm name upon doing so. Hurricane Cesar was the third named storm and second hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season. The system formed in the southern Caribbean Sea and affected several countries in South America before crossing Nicaragua and entering the Eastern Pacific where it was renamed Hurricane Douglas, the fourth named storm, third hurricane, and first and strongest major hurricane of the 1996 Pacific hurricane season. Cesar developed from a tropical wave off the coast of Venezuela on July 24. Initially a tropical depression, it strengthened to a tropical storm eighteen hours later. On July 27, Cesar attained hurricane status about halfway between Nicaragua and Colombia. On July 28, Hurricane Cesar made landfall just north of Bluefields, Nicaragua, weakening to tropical storm status. Cesar emerged into the eastern Pacific Ocean by July 29 and was renamed Tropical Storm Douglas. At the time, the agreement through the World Meteorological Organization was for storms to be renamed if they crossed from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This made Cesar the most recent tropical cyclone to traverse from the Atlantic to east Pacific basin until Hurricane Otto achieved the same feat in 2016. Category 1 hurricane: peak winds of 85 mph (75 knots), lowest pressure 985 mb. July 24 – July 28, 1996. Landfall: July 28 at 85 mph, 12.2°N 83.9°W. Accumulated cyclone energy: 4.0. Wiki link Track: NOAA National Hurricane Center, HURDAT2 best track AL031996 (public domain).