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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.
September 7–11, 1921 – the remnants of a low-end hurricane stream northward into Texas after striking just south of Tampico, Mexico, causing significant flooding in Central Texas. [1] [36] A peak rainfall total of 40 in (1,000 mm) is documented in Thrall over a three-day period with 32 in (810 mm) accumulating in 12 hours; this would set a ...
Maps show how many major hurricanes have hit each county along the U.S. coastline from 1900 to 2010. A major hurricane is one that is Category 3 or higher, with maximum sustained winds of at least ...
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 ...
Texas No. 2 for most hurricanes among US states. Based on data through 2022, Texas has been hit by more hurricanes than 48 other states. Only Florida has seen more hurricanes than the Lone Star State.
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
June 11-12, 2001: Tropical Storm Allison did so much damage in Texas it became the only tropical storm to have its name retired without having reached hurricane status. Though it skirted ...