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Upper Texas Coast Tropical Cyclones in the 1920s



Map of 1920s Storms
NAME CLASS /
LANDFALL
DATE DATA
(kts/mbs)
AFFECTS
HURRICANE Hurricane - Cat. 1 /
W of Port O'Connor
6/28/29 Pk. Wnd - 70 kt
Pressure - 986mb
Destruction area only 20 miles wide
HURRICANE Hurricane - Cat. 1* /
Matagorda Bay
6/22/21 Pk. Wnd - 65 kt
Pressure - NA
Passed over Palacios, Wharton, and Wallis; Was a Category 2 well offshore, but weakened to a Category 1 by landfall


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