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August 1, 1989 – Hurricane Chantal makes landfall as a minimal hurricane at High Island, Texas, causing two deaths from flash flooding. [ 1 ] [ 54 ] Early-October 1989 – Hurricane Raymond from the East Pacific causes rainfall in northern Texas, peaking at 2.80 in (71 mm) in Yorktown .
Hurricane Gustav (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ s t ɑː v /) was the second most destructive tropical cyclone of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. The seventh tropical cyclone, third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season, Gustav caused serious damage and casualties in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Cuba and the United ...
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.
The meteorological history of Hurricane Gustav spanned eleven days, from August 25 to September 4, 2008. The tropical disturbance which eventually spawned Hurricane Gustav gathered on August 16, southwest of the Cape Verde islands, but was slow to develop as it trekked west across the Atlantic .
The Galveston Hurricane. Year: 1900. Death Toll: 6,000–12,000. Financial Impact: Estimated $30 million at the time (~$700 million adjusted for inflation) At the time, 38,000 people lived in ...
The interaction between Gustav and a non-tropical system produced strong winds that caused an additional $240,000 (2002 USD) in damage in New England, but this damage was not directly attributed to the hurricane. Gustav spent the early part of its existence as a subtropical storm, and was the first such storm to be named from the current lists ...
With a U.S. death toll of at least 241, Hurricane Helene is the continental United States’ deadliest single storm since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when about 1,400 people died.
That said, 2005 — the year of Hurricane Dennis, the previous earliest hurricane on record — was a then-record-breaking hurricane season, with its 28 named storms smashing by a third the ...