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The names of all the major hurricanes that impacted Texas during the 1980s were later retired by the World Meteorological Organization. [4] In contrast to the 1980s, during the 1990s only one hurricane, Hurricane Bret, made landfall on the Texas coast. [5] In the next decade five hurricanes would make landfall on Texas. [1]
The storm has been blamed for at least 11 deaths in the U.S. and nine in the Caribbean. At least three people were killed in metropolitan Houston, weather officials have said.
This hurricane season has been particularly destructive, with 18 named storms, 11 hurricanes and five major hurricanes, two of which made landfall in t Hurricane impacts continue long after the ...
Utility Entergy said Texas restoration crews had turned the lights back on for about 183,000 of 252,460 customers impacted by Hurricane Beryl as of Friday afternoon.
Padre Island, just off the Texas gulf coast, suffered significant devastation, and the island's sensitive ecosystem was altered by the storm. Within a 36-hour period it dropped almost 30 inches of rain in Beeville, Texas. Hurricane Beulah caused an estimated $1.1 billion (in 2000 dollars) in damage. Sources report 58–59 deaths from the storm ...
Hurricane Harvey caused major flooding in southern Texas for four days in August 2017. Hurricane Harvey formed on August 17, 2017 east of the Lesser Antilles.Six days later, after degenerating back into a tropical wave and moving through the Caribbean Sea, Harvey reformed and rapidly intensified in the Gulf of Mexico.
Texas has a long history of hurricanes, with the earliest recorded hurricane making landfall here in 1851. Then, in 1900, the Great Galveston Hurricane devastated the Galveston Bay Area.
The hurricane caused great loss of life, with a death toll of between 6,000 and 12,000 people; [31] the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, [26] [43] giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths of all Atlantic hurricanes, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. [44]