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Ike is one of the most destructive hurricanes ever to hit Texas and one of the deadliest, causing $19.3 billion in damages and killing 84 people. [1] October 13, 2008 – Hurricane Norbert causes moderate rainfall over West Texas after moving inland from the eastern Pacific. [126]
Hurricane Katrina, in August 2005, claimed nearly 1,400 people's lives and caused billions of dollars in damage. The storm reached sustained winds of 175 miles per hour. No. 2: Texas
Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the top ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in terms of barometric pressure ever recorded (along with Wilma and Katrina), Rita was the seventeenth named storm ...
August 27, 2020 – Hurricane Laura, as a high-end Category 4 hurricane, made landfall near the Louisiana–Texas border in Cameron Parish and simultaneously tied the 1856 Last Island hurricane as the strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall in Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. Storm surge as high as 17 feet was ...
Here are the top 10 deadliest hurricanes to hit Texas from 1851 to 2010, according to data gathered by NOAA: Galveston Hurricane of 1900 (Category 4): Death toll between 8,000 and 12,000, named ...
Hurricane storm tracker: See active storms in the Atlantic Texas weather watches and warnings. This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Hurricane Beryl is more likely to hit ...
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.
Beryl would be the 10th hurricane to hit Texas in July since 1851 and the fourth in the last 25 years, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. Gonzalez reported ...