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Hurricane Alice was the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the month of June since reliable records began in the 1850s. The storm was linked to catastrophic flooding in southern Texas and northern Mexico, especially along the Rio Grande and its tributaries.
The NOAA estimates a $125 billion damage toll for Harvey, making it the second costliest hurricane in U.S. history when adjusting for inflation and the costliest hurricane in Texas history. [154] [160] September 17–19, 2019 – Tropical Storm Imelda makes landfall near Freeport, Texas with winds of 40 mph (64 km/h). [161]
The U.S. state of Texas has had many hurricanes affect it. It is the U.S. state with the second-most hurricanes affecting it, only behind Florida . [ 1 ] Storms affecting it go back to 1527.
Hurricane Alice is the only known Atlantic hurricane to span two calendar years, and one of only two named tropical cyclones, along with Tropical Storm Zeta of 2005, to do so. The twelfth tropical cyclone and the eighth hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season , Alice developed on December 30, 1954 from a trough of low pressure in the ...
Twice wiped off the face of the Earth by hurricanes, it was once the second-largest port on the Texas coast, after Galveston. For decades, it ranked as one of the biggest cities in the state.
The hurricane causes one death and $2 million in damages. [57] October 3, 1949 – The 1949 Texas hurricane makes landfall near Freeport with winds of 135 miles per hour (217 km/h) after crossing into the Gulf of Mexico from the East Pacific. [10] In advance of the storm 50,000 people sought shelter. [58]
From 1951 to 2000, Pacific hurricanes most frequently struck the northwestern Mexican states Baja California Sur or Sinaloa, as well as Michoacán in southern Mexico. Atlantic hurricanes during the same period were most likely to hit Quintana Roo along the eastern Yucatán peninsula and Veracruz along the Bay of Campeche. Along both coasts, the ...
3. Beryl is the third earliest Atlantic major hurricane on record. While Beryl is the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record, it was almost the earliest major hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic.