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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Think Texas columnist Michael Barnes on the pedestal of the La Salle statue, November 1963. At age 9, he was already smitten by Texas history and the romance of twice-obliterated Indianola.
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.
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.
Starting in 1955, hurricanes that caused substantial damage to any country could have their name retired from the list of names for the Atlantic basin. Hurricane Audrey, the most destructive Texas hurricane during the 1950s, was the first hurricane to impact Texas to have its name retired. While the 1960s only featured six tropical cyclones ...