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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.
It rapidly intensified in the western Gulf of Mexico, [6] giving the citizens of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico little time to prepare. [12] By June 25, Alice intensified to hurricane status, reaching peak winds of 110 mph (180 km/h) that day, before making landfall in northeastern Mexico, just south of the Mexico–United States border.
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 ...
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]
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.
Otis strengthened from a tropical storm into a major hurricane before it slammed into Mexico’s coast at around 12.25am local time with sustained winds of 165 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.