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Overall effects. Fatalities. 23 total. Damage. $8.7 billion (2001 USD) Part of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season. The effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas included 23 deaths caused by extreme flooding. The first storm of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Allison lasted unusually long for a June storm, remaining tropical ...
Tropical Storm Allison was a tropical storm that devastated southeast Texas in June of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season. An arguable example of the "brown ocean effect", Allison lasted unusually long for a June storm, remaining tropical or subtropical for 16 days, most of which was when the storm was over land dumping torrential rainfall.
Allison was the first storm since Tropical Storm Frances in 1998 to affect the northern Texas coastline. [17] A major flood disaster occurred throughout its path from Texas to the Mid-Atlantic. Houston, Texas, and its vicinity suffered the brunt of the impact, as over 35 in (890 mm) of rain fell there when Allison stalled over southeastern ...
Flooding in Port Arthur from Hurricane Harvey. From 1980 to the present, 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Texas.According to David Roth of the Weather Prediction Center, a tropical cyclone makes landfall along the coastline about three times every four years, and on any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline a hurricane makes landfall about once every six years.
The dangerous heat – driven by human-caused climate change – hasn’t been limited to Texas. At least 28 heat-related deaths in the West have been reported since July 1, as a record-breaking ...
Hundreds of thousands of people in greater Houston may continue to have no electricity at home due to damage from Hurricane Beryl.
The first storm of the season, Allison had an unusually long path for a June storm, which extended from Texas to the Mid-Atlantic states. Allison was also the first storm since Tropical Storm Frances in 1998 to strike the upper Texas coastline. The storm dropped heavy rainfall along its path, peaking at over 40 inches (1000 mm) in Texas.
Utility Entergy said Texas restoration crews had turned the lights back on for about 183,000 of 252,460 customers impacted by Hurricane Beryl as of Friday afternoon.