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The North American country of Mexico regularly experiences tropical cyclones from both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Tropical cyclones that produce maximum sustained winds of more than 119 kilometre per hour (74 mph) are designated as hurricanes, which can produce deadly and damaging effects, particularly where they make landfall, or ...
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.
In Mexico, Alice left minor damage, and killed one person due to a fallen power line. [12] Across Texas, Alice dropped torrential rainfall, peaking at 24.07 in (611 mm) near Pandale, [13] with most of the rainfall concentrated around the Pecos River. High precipitation accumulations occurred in areas that had seen little rains in three years.
Hurricane Alice was named in January 1955 but was operationally analysed to have developed in late December 1954. [9] Within the official hurricane season bounds, tropical cyclogenesis did not occur until July 31, with the development of Tropical Storm Brenda. However, during the month of August, four tropical cyclones formed – including ...
Alice moved west-southwest and two days later slammed into the northern Leeward Islands as a Category 1 hurricane on Jan. 2, 1955. Wind gusts up to 81 mph and flooding rain damaged homes and crops.
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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 ...
A 1938 hurricane took a bizarre south-southwest hook in the central Atlantic Ocean. A New Year's Eve hurricane, Alice, lasted into early January 1955 before it fizzled in the eastern Caribbean Sea.