Hundreds were swept into Nueces Bay after their homes wereĭestroyed. Not heeded, many people stayed in a dangerous area susceptible to the storm surge. With warnings being issued just on that morning of September 14 th and then The North Beach area was where the hurricane would become deadly. Damage was estimated at 20 million dollars, whichĬorrelates to nearly 300 million dollars in 2019. Littered in the downtown area included 1400 bales of cotton that were awaiting shipment in addition to large stockpiles of lumber. The damage was catastrophic in the downtown area of Corpus Christi as water reached 11.5 feet and debris was piled as high as 16 feet. ![]() Surge affecting a large area, weakening before landfall, and having a large eye of around 35 nautical miles. This hurricane was similar to Hurricane Ike of 2008 in regards to storm The storm surge was 13 feet at Port O’Connor and 9 feet at Galveston. The highest storm surge was at Corpus Christi at 16 feet. Hurricane produced a storm surge that affected the entire Texas coast into Louisiana. Newspaper headline the day after the hurricane from the Ballinger Daily Ledger.īut the large storm generated a dome of water that would serve to produce the highest storm surge on record in the Corpus Christi area. The hurricane made landfall in the southern Coastalīend as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 115 mph and a central pressure of 950 millibars. The hurricane would weaken slightly before reaching the Middle Texas coast. Some believed the barrier islands protected their city from devastating storm surge.īy the early morning on the 14 th of September, tides began to rise sharply at Port Aransas while the pressure steadily dropped as the northwest Galveston in August of 1915 and the second near Baffin Bay in August of 1916. Two Category 4 hurricanes made landfall on the Texas coast in the previous 4 years - the first at Near misses occurred during the early 1900s. Reports from the Gulf of Mexico temporarily ceased.Įarly in the 20 th century, citizens of Corpus Christi came to believe that their Sparkling City by the Sea was safe from hurricanes after several During this time, without the assistance of satellite imagery and radars, meteorologists lost track of this hurricane as ship ![]() The hurricane became a large storm over the Gulf of Mexico and maintained its strength as a category 4 hurricane through theġ3 th. ![]() The hurricane devastated the Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane (Saffir-Simpson scale) on Septemberġ0 th, 1919. On September 14 th of 2019, a century will have passed since the deadliest hurricane to affect the Coastal Bend of Texas made landfallīetween Baffin Bay and Corpus Christi. Gross Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Mary and Jeff Bell Library,
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