hurricane hurricane intense tropical cyclone primarily affected areas texas coast august atlantic hurricane season second storm hurricane season developing yucatán_peninsula august moving northwest storm began quickly intensify day rapidly intensified category hurricane category winds estimated mph estimated central pressure mbar inhg shortly making landfall near texas early august landfall hurricane began quickly weaken dissipating texas panhandle storm caused heavy rainfall inland peaking record rainfall rates reported areas power outages reported galveston san_antonio storm caused million damages crops deaths meteorological history hurricane noted ships august tropical disturbance gulf_of_mexico suggested later research disturbance originated low pressure area belize honduras august steadily moving northwest storm began intensify reaching hurricane strength august soon reaching major hurricane strength later day report remarked storm phenomenal fact previously storm moderate intensity near land rapidly intensifying storm eventually reached winds mph making category hurricane saffir simpson hurricane scale hurricane proceeded landfall early august east winds mph ship offshore coast reported minimum pressure mbar inhg official estimate hurricane landfall intensity set mbar inhg given fact system rapidly intensifying time storm small size quickly weakened tropical storm strength later day storm finally weakened tropical depression dissipating day preparations impact aftermath preparation storm vehicles evacuated water craft taken far inland possible families evacuated 38th division stationed alerted oncoming storm heavy rainfall occurred coast inland storm locations set hour rainfall records month august highest set near recording rain august faced water shortage pumping station destroyed remnants storm produced rain oklahoma occupants vehicles rescued united_states_coast_guard near birds went missing heavy rain galveston suffered primarily wind damage form structures broken windows galveston causeway flooded heavy rain preventing access mainland roads blocked fallen trees city affected power storm caused loss power damaged communication lines addition communication lines san_antonio damaged houston planes damaged hangar collapsed resulting losses affected storm goats began park broken fence caused fallen limb freed state prison storm chance prison collapsing storm returned prison leaving missing storm brought supplies areas affected hurricane requesting relief work local relief committees brought supplies affected areas estimated million damages storm attributed crop damage especially rice cotton storm estimated killed people caused million damage
1932 Freeport hurricane