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The Great Galveston hurricane made landfall on September 8, 1900, near Galveston, Texas. It had estimated winds of 140 mph (225 km/h) at landfall, making the cyclone a Category 4 storm on the modern day Saffir–Simpson scale . [ 5 ]
The List of Texas hurricanes from 1900 to 1949 encompasses 47 tropical cyclones that affected the U.S. state of Texas.The season with the most storms to affect the state was the 1933 Atlantic hurricane season, when five storms affected Texas.
Upon striking Texas shortly after peak intensity, it produced a devastating storm surge in the Galveston area, with extensive damage and at least 8,000 fatalities. Nicknamed the "1900 Galveston hurricane", it remains the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States.
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 ...
1 Pre-1900. 2 1900–1949. 3 1950–1979. 4 1980–present. 5 See also. 6 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... The state of Texas has had many hurricanes ...
The first storm of the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall near Corpus Christi. [citation needed]The first storm of the 1854 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall in Texas, while the fourth storm of the season, another hurricane, moved inland near Galveston, Texas, causing 2 deaths from nearly 6 inches of rainfall, as well as $20,000 in damage.
Isaac Monroe Cline (October 13, 1861 – August 3, 1955) was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas, office of the U.S. Weather Bureau, now known as the National Weather Service, from 1889 to 1901. In that role, he became a central figure in the devastating Galveston hurricane of 1900. The Isaac M. Cline Award, the NWS's highest honor ...
Etched into its collective memory is the fury of a 1900 hurricane that killed thousands back when the island was emerging as a crown jewel for the state. More recently, Hurricane Ike’s 2008 wrath flooded its historic downtown with storm surge as high as 20 feet and caused more than $29 billion in damage.