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Hurricane Carla was the most intense tropical cyclone landfall in Texas in the 20th century. [ 1] The third named storm of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Carla developed from an area of squally weather in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on September 3. [ 1] As a tropical depression, it strengthened while heading northwest.
1980–1984. Hurricane Allen (1980) near landfall. August 10, 1980 – Hurricane Allen makes landfall near Brownsville as a Category 3 hurricane. A wind gust of 140 mph (230 km/h) is reported in Port Mansfield. Heavy rainfall is reported across South Texas, with a peak of 20.2 in (510 mm) in Kingsville.
The Sabine River ( / səˈbiːn /) is a 360-mile (580 km) long river [5] [6] in the Southern U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana, [3] From the 32nd parallel north and downstream, it serves as part of the boundary between the two states and empties into Sabine Lake, an estuary of the Gulf of Mexico . Over the first half of the 19th century, the ...
Sabine Pass. Coordinates: 29°43′35″N 93°51′48″W. Wide natural beach near Sabine Pass. USGS map of Sabine Pass. Sabine Pass is the natural outlet of Sabine Lake into the Gulf of Mexico. [1] It borders Jefferson County, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana. [1]
Hurricane Alicia was a small but powerful tropical cyclone that caused significant destruction in the Greater Houston area of Southeast Texas in August 1983. Although Alicia was a relatively small hurricane, its track over the rapidly growing metropolitan area contributed to its $3 billion damage toll, making it the costliest Atlantic hurricane ...
Astronaut photograph of Houston at night. Houston, the most populous city in the Southern United States, is located along the upper Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. The city, which is the ninth-largest in the United States by area, covers 601.7 square miles (1,558 km 2 ), of which ...
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. Major storms during this period include the 1900 and 1915 Galveston hurricanes, the former which ...
Entergy, which had a peak of about 252,000 outages on Monday, says crews are on track to restore 50% of impacted customers by the end of the day Wednesday. Still, CenterPoint reported more than 1. ...