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The storm kills one person and leaves $50 million in damage. [116] Hurricane Ike (2008) in the Gulf of Mexico. July 23, 2008 – Hurricane Dolly makes landfall at South Padre Island with winds near 100 mph. A storm surge of 4 ft (1.2 m) is observed across much of the coast of southern Texas. [117]
A rare winter storm churned across the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday, bringing heavy snow, ice and wind gusts to a region where flurries are unusual, while much of the United States remained in a ...
At Perry, Georgia, the closest gaging station to Houston Lake, the former records for flood height and flow were shattered; from 8.27 feet and 788 cubic feet/second, to 21.75 feet and 24,000 cubic feet per second, though this record may have been affected by dam breaks upstream. [3] On Tuesday, July 5, 1994, the Houston Lake earthen dam failed.
The mouth of the Mississippi River saw breaks in its levee system due to storm surge. In Mississippi, a massive storm surge destroyed most structures along the coast including floating casinos, and preliminary figures show that the storm surge was higher than in Hurricane Camille of 1969. [4] There were 1,836 fatalities, mostly from flooding.
Gene Taylor, a former public official in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall there in 2005, has another message he gives to people considering riding out a potentially ...
After days of lurking off the Texas coast and sending storm surge sweeping through coastal communities, Tropical Storm Beta became the ninth named storm to make landfall in the United States ...
Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Matagorda, Texas on July 8, 2024, causing 44 [1] deaths due to strong winds and heavy rainfall knocking over trees and causing drownings. . Hurricane Beryl was also significant for causing over 2.7 million households and businesses near the Gulf Coast, primarily in the Houston metropolitan area, to suffer from prolonged power outages during high temperatures ...
Power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston, an official warned Friday, after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city, knocking out electricity to nearly 1 million ...