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As many as 2.7 million electricity customers in the Houston area are left without power in the storm's aftermath, representing the most extensive power outage suffered by CenterPoint Energy. [184] Rainfall accumulations of 8–12 in (200–300 mm) cover the Houston area, [185] reaching as high as 14.88 in (378 mm) in Hilshire Village. [183]
August 7, 1964 – Tropical Storm Abby the very next year hit Matagorda, Texas as a 65 mph (105 km/h) tropical storm, dissipating the following day. Abby was a small system; its complete circulation at the surface was less than 100 miles (160 km) in diameter. Because of this, Abby caused only $750,000 in damage, most of it from crop damage.
It is the U.S. state with the second-most hurricanes affecting it, only behind Florida. [1] Storms affecting it go back to 1527. Pre-1900
Hurricane-force wind gusts reported in Texas and Louisiana: Wind speeds reached as high as 100 mph in downtown Houston, a National Weather Service storm damage survey crew determined Friday. Wind ...
Tropical Storm Beryl is making a slow, ruinous passage out of Houston, where it is flooding highways and knocking out power lines. As of 3 p.m. local time Monday, as the eye of the storm moved ...
"The most intense rainfall, ranging from 8 to 12 inches in most areas, will occur near the storm's landfall location along the east-central Texas coast, extending up to Houston and Tyler," added Roys.
Hurricane Harvey was a devastating tropical cyclone that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, [nb 1] inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in Greater Houston and Southeast ...
Tropical Storm Imelda was a tropical cyclone which was the fourth-wettest storm on record in the U.S. state of Texas, causing devastating and record-breaking floods in southeast Texas. The eleventh tropical cyclone and ninth named storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season , Imelda formed out of an upper-level low that developed in the Gulf of ...