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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.
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.
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 ...
Usually at this time of year the Atlantic hurricane season is long over. But on Dec. 31, 1954, 70 years ago today, a storm named "Alice" first became a hurricane several hundred miles northeast of ...
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 ...
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 ...
When a tropical storm or hurricane's winds increase by 35 mph or greater in 24 hours or less, it has rapidly intensified. At 9 p.m. on Sunday, local time, John was a tropical depression with 35 ...
The second Hurricane Alice in 1954 was the latest forming tropical storm and hurricane, reaching these intensities on December 30 and 31, respectively. Hurricane Alice and Tropical Storm Zeta were the only two storms to exist in two calendar years – the former from 1954 to 1955 and the latter from 2005 to 2006. [14]