While things are slow in the Atlantic, I will continue my series of history posts. Today: Texas Hurricanes from 1950 to 1999. Texas has a long coastline and is therefore a huge target for hurricanes.
The queen of Texas hurricanes in the latter half of the 20th century was undoubtedly Carla of 1961. It was a very large, very intense Category 4 that came ashore near Port O'Connor but brought hurricane conditions to almost the entire Texas coast. CARLA caused the third-highest storm surge in American history in Port Lavaca: 22.07 ft (6.7 m) above normal.
By contrast, CELIA 1970—the other Cat-4 impact from this time—was a small, violent firecracker of a storm that rapidly intensified just before landfall and smashed Corpus Christi.
ALLEN 1980 was a major impact, but it still has to be considered a lucky break. Just 24 hours before landfall, it was a strengthening Category 5 headed for Brownsville! Fortunately, it weakened a lot in those final hours and veered more N, into a less populated region.
ALICIA 1983 was a small storm that formed close to the coast, but it managed to get up to Cat 3 before blasting Galveston and Houston.
BELUAH 1967 came ashore way down at the Texas-Mexico border, causing widespread flooding and many tornadoes across the Rio Grande Valley.
AUDREY 1957 came in near the Texas-Louisiana border and is mostly remembered as a Louisiana storm—due to the great death and destruction in Cameron Parish—but it also impacted Texas.
BRET 1999 was this here chaser dude's very first Gulf hurricane. ❤ I rode it out in a church in Riviera, just brushing the N eyewall.
If y'all behave, I'll do Texas Hurricanes since 2000 tomorrow.

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