texas hurricane texas hurricane intense tropical cyclone atlantic hurricane season forming pacific_ocean september storm crossed gulf_of_mexico handful known storms began intensify ultimately peaked winds corresponding high end category status modern day saffir landfall near texas morning october rapidly weakened moving inland dissipated days later damage storm moderate hurricane temporarily cut city galveston mainland rice crops suffered extensive damage losses estimated million usd million usd people died hurricane meteorological history according modern day analysis tropical depression developed pacific_ocean south el_salvador early september drifted northward central_america eastern mexico emerging gulf_of_mexico near del september weather reports indicated low air pressures area days relatively rare tropical cyclone cross pacific atlantic vice versa storm dozen known officially tropical cyclones crossed eastern pacific gulf_of_mexico cyclone intensified tropical storm october sped slightly curved northwestward day later hurricane subsequently period rapid intensification took place cyclone approached texas coast october attained peak winds miles hour equivalent upper end category category intensity storm moved ashore early day east barometric pressure estimated inhg storm relatively october hurricanes impact landfall texas significantly weakening passed directly houston storm hurricane moving inland hurricane quickly degraded tropical storm hours making landfall turned northeastward continued central united_states weakening tropical depression october extratropical day persisted october believed dissipated near wisconsin preparations impact cities texas sought shelter advance hurricane estimated residents fled shelters stayed tropical cyclone watches warnings issued coastal areas texas louisiana removed aircraft houston small kept safe port schools corpus closed october businesses threatened area hurricane produced gusts mph west accompanied air pressure inches mercury hpa tides normal precipitation storm heavy peaking rainfall extended eastward louisiana amounting louisiana urban areas sustained generally light damage houston winds shattered store windows distributed debris galveston temporarily cut mainland hurricane water surpassed city hurricane spawned minor tornado struck community injuring children reportedly suffered worst damage costing approximately pier largely destroyed cost hurricane caused extensive damage rice cotton vegetable crops region estimate days storm placed total quantity rice damaged totaling million monetary losses reported total damage storm million following storm thousands automobiles states affected widespread paint usually concentrated tops vehicles contained small water paint reported home cars damaged parked outside sheltered automobiles unaffected total damage phenomenon reached thousands dollars experts unable identify cause immediately following storm deaths attributed storm resident port young woman drowned
1949 Texas hurricane