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Environment
Mexico; lower Texas coast affected.
Oct. 12-13, 1880: Hurricane. Brownsville. City nearly
destroyed, many lives lost.
Aug. 23-24, 1882: Torrential rains caused flooding on
the North and South Concho and Bosque rivers (South Con-
cho reported 45 feet above normal level), destroying Ben-
ficklen, then county seat of Tom Green County, leaving only the
courthouse and the jail. More than 50 persons were reported
drowned in Tom Green and Erath counties, with property
damage at $200,000 and 10,000 to 15,000 head of livestock
lost.
Aug. 19-21,1886: Hurricane. Indlanola. Every house de-
stroyed or damaged. Indianola never rebuilt.
Oct. 12,1886: Hurricane. Sabine, Jefferson County. Hur-
ricane passed over Sabine. The inundation extended 20 miles
inland and nearly every house in the vicinity was moved from its
foundation; 150 persons were drowned.
April 28, 1893: Tornado. Clsco, Eastland County; 23
killed, 93 injured; damage $400,000.
May 15, 1896: Tornadoes, Sherman, Grayson County;
Justin, Denton County; Grlbble Springs, Cooke County; 76
killed; damage $225,000.
Sept. 12, 1897: Hurricane. Many houses in Port Arthur
were demolished; 13 killed, damage $150,000.
May 1, 1898: Tornado. Mobeetie, Wheeler County. Four
killed, several injured; damage $35,000.
June 27-July 1,1899: RaInstorm. A storm, centered over
the Brazos River watershed, precipitated an average of 17
inches over an area of 7,000 square miles. At Hearne the gage
overflowed at 24 inches, and there was an estimated total rain-
fall of 30 inches. At Turnervllle, Coryell County, 33 inches
were recorded in three days. This rain caused the worst Bra-
zos River flood on record. Between 30 and 35 lives were lost.
Property damage was estimated at $9 million.
April 5-8,1900: Rainstorm. This storm began in two cen-
ters, over Val Verde County on the Rio Grande, and over
Swisher County on the High Plains, and converged in the vi-
cinity of Travls County, causing disastrous floods in the Colo-
rado, Brazos and Guadalupe rivers. McDonald Dam on the
Colorado River at Austin crumbled suddenly. A wall of water
swept through the city taking at least 23 lives. Damage was es-
timated at $1,250,000.
Sept. 8-9, 1900: Hurricane. Galveston. The Great
Galveston Storm was the worst natural disaster In U.S. histo-
ry in terms of human life. Loss of life at Galveston has been es-
timated at 6,000 to 8,000, but the exact number has never been
exactly determined. The island was completely inundated; not a
single structure escaped damage. Most of the loss of life was
due to drowning by storm tides that reached 15 feet or more.
The anemometer blew away when the wind reached 100 miles
per hour at 6:15 p.m. on the 8th. Wind reached an estimated
maximum velocity of 120 miles per hour between 7:30 and 8:30
p.m. Property damage has been estimated at $30 to $40 mil-
lion.
May 18, 1902: Tornado. Gollad. This tornado cut a 250-
year-wide path straight through town, turning 150 buildings into
rubble. Several churches were destroyed, one of which was
holding services; all 40 worshippers were either killed or in-
jured. This tornado killed 114, injured 230, and caused an esti-
mated $200,000 in damages.
April 26, 1906: Tornado. Bellevue, Clay County, demol-
ished; considerable damage done at Stoneburg, seven miles
east; 17 killed, 20 injured; damage $300,000.
May 6, 1907: Tornado. North of Sulphur Springs, Hop-
kins County; five killed, 19 injured.
May 13, 1908: Tornado. Linden, Cass County. Four
killed, seven injured; damage $75,000.
May 22-25, 1908: Rainstorm; unique because it originat-
ed on the Pacific Coast. It moved first into North Texas and
southern Oklahoma and thence to Central Texas, precipitating
as much as 10 inches. Heaviest floods were in the upper Trinity
basin, but flooding was general as far south as the Nueces.
Property damage exceeded $5 million and 11 lives were lost in
the Dallas vicinity.
March 23,1909: Tornado. SlIdell, Wise County; 11 killed,
10 injured; damage $30,000.May 30,1909: Tornado. Zephyr, Brown County; 28 killed,
many injured; damage $90,000.
July 21, 1909: Hurricane. Velasco, Brazoria County.
One-half of town destroyed, 41 lives lost; damage $2,000,000.
Dec. 1-5, 1913: Rainstorm. This caused the second ma-
jor Brazos River flood, and caused more deaths than the
storm of 1899. It formed over Central Texas and spread both
southwest and northeast with precipitation of 15 inches at San
Marcos and 11 inches at Kaufman. Floods caused loss of 177
Texas Annual Average
Precipitation, 1888-1998
Year Inches Year Inches1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
"1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
"*1941
1942
194338.61
34.52
31.52
27.49
26.91
18.66
25.37
30.12
24.94
24.94
25.97
26.34
38.54
20.31
30.83
30.16
27.65
37.89
28.90
30.87
30.10
21.50
19.59
26.47
23.89
32.85
34.66
29.33
22.51
14.80
26.28
41.95
31.39
26.19
29.88
36.63
21.36
23.66
33.06
25.41
26.54
28.34
27.12
27.43
32.69
23.11
23.04
34.58
28.57
25.16
24.98
23.24
32.09
40.94
30.35
32.411944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
199833.38
29.37
33.25
23.73
20.70
34.09
24.98
20.74
22.41
23.64
18.01
22.75
15.52
37.01
30.78
30.33
31.90
28.90
24.32
19.75
23.75
26.82
26.93
25.47
33.20
29.82
23.87
28.39
27.06
35.44
32.27
27.30
30.71
22.75
25.87
31.39
24.45
32.69
26.97
25.85
26.19
30.05
34.14
30.56
21.13
25.59
31.77
37.94
34.16
27.60
29.65
27.62
24.71
34.90
28.52111-year average: 28.14"
*Driest year
* Wettest year
Source: Office of the State Climatologist
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