Here is a partial list of tropical cyclones that hit Texas:
1900–1909
September 8, 1900: A long-lived tropical cyclone trekked across the Caribbean and moved over Cuba. On September 4, the Galveston office of the U.S. Weather Bureau began receiving warnings from the Bureau's central office in Washington, D.C., that a tropical storm had moved northward over Cuba. The Weather Bureau forecasters had little way of knowing where the storm exactly was, and referenced climatology, preferring a storm track towards the middle Gulf coast. Conditions in the Gulf of Mexico were ripe for further strengthening of the storm. The Gulf had seen little cloud cover for several weeks, and the seas were as warm as bathwater, according to one report. The hurricane moved west-northwest towards the Texas coast. The last train to reach Galveston left Houston on the morning of the September 8 at 9:45 a.m. It found the tracks washed out, and passengers were forced to transfer to a relief train on parallel tracks to complete their journey. Even then, debris on the track kept the train's progress at a crawl. As the hurricane neared, conditions in Texas deteriorated, and residents just thought it was a thunderstorm. When the hurricane made landfall, it was of category four intensity. It destroyed the city of Galveston, and led to the rise of Houston. Although damage was significant across Galveston Island, the human toll was higher. The death toll is estimated to lie between 8,000-12,000.[1][2]
July 10, 1901 - The second storm of the 1901 season made landfall in Southeast Texas as a minimal tropical storm.[3]
June 26, 1902 - The second storm of 1902 made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas.[4]
September 30, 1905 - The third tropical storm entered Texas as a tropical depression.[5]
July 31, 1908 - The fourth tropical storm of the 1908 season formed and made landfall in Texas.
September 18, 1908 - The seventh tropical storm of the 1908 season dissipated right off the Texas coast.[6]
June 29, 1909 - The second storm of 1909 hit Texas as a Category 2 hurricane near Bronwsville, according to the "Best Track" database maintained by the National Hurricane Center. Little information on this storm is known at this time.
July 21, 1909 - The fourth storm hit near Freeport, Texas as a Category 3 hurricane; with a 10-foot (3-meter) storm surge. Damage totals came to $2 million (1909 dollars) and 41 people died.[7]
August 24, 1909 - a hurricane slammed into the Mexico and Texas area. Point Isabel, Texas was completely underwater. No one perished though.[7]
1910–1919
- August 31, 1910 – The second tropical cyclone of 1910 moves ashore near the mouth of the Rio Grande as a tropical storm with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h).[8][9][10] In advance of the storm, northeast storm warnings are posted for the region. The cyclone causes strong winds, which cause moderate property damage in the Brownsville area.[8]
- September 14, 1910 – The first hurricane of the 1910 season slapped Texas as a hurricane.[11]
October 16, 1912 - The sixth storm of 1912 made its second landfall just south of Corpus Christi, Texas as a Category 1. 15 people died and damage came to over $28,000.[12]
June 27, 1913 - The first storm of the 1913 season was Category 2 hurricane that struck Cancún, Mexico and Padre Island, Texas. This storm caused major flooding and killed one person.[13]
September 19, 1914 - The remnants of a system affected Texas near the Louisiana border.[14]
August 17, 1915 - The second storm of the year was first observed in the eastern Tropical Atlantic on August 5. It tracked westward, intensifying into a hurricane on the 9th before crossing the Lesser Antilles on the 10th. As the hurricane continued through the Caribbean Sea, it passed just south of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola before crossing Jamaica on the 13th where it caused heavy damage. While south of Cuba it became a major hurricane, and it brushed the western tip of the country on the 15th. Over the Gulf of Mexico the hurricane continued to strengthen, and reached a peak of 140 mph winds. Just before landfall it weakened, and the hurricane hit Galveston, Texas on the 17th as a 120 mph hurricane. It turned northward, became extratropical on the 18th, and dissipated on the 23rd. Just fifteen years after the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, this hurricane damaged the already hurting Texas economy. Throughout its path, it caused a total of $50 million in damage (1915 USD, $921 million in 2005 USD) and 400 casualties.[15]
August 18, 1916 - The 1916 Texas hurricane struck Corpus Christi, Texas on August 18 after striking Martinique. The storm caused over $28 million in damage, 1.6 million dollars in damage.[16]
August 6, 1918 - The remnants of the first storm of 1918 affected Texas after making landfall in Louisiana.[17]
September 14, 1919 - The second storm of the 1919 season made landfall just south of Corpus Christi, Texas as a Category 1.[18]
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