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Hurricane Alicia was the only major hurricane of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season. It hit southeast Texas, becoming the first hurricane to hit the U.S. coast since Hurricane Allen in 1980. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying most Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the levels of tropical depression and tropical storm and thereby become hurricanes. ...
Summary Hurricane Alicia shortly after landfall on August 18, 1983. ...
August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ...
Kilometre per hour (American spelling: kilometer per hour) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector). ...
A millibar (mbar, also mb) is 1/1000th of a bar, a unit for measurement of pressure. ...
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2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Nickname: Space City Motto: Official website: http://www. ...
The 1983 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. ...
The 1983 Atlantic hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. ...
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1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Storm history
A cold front moved through the Gulf of Mexico. On the extreme western end of it, a mesoscale low-pressure area developed on August 14, developing into a tropical depression on the 15th. The depression became Tropical Storm Alicia later that day. Steering currents were weak, due to a ridge of high pressure to the north. Alicia drifted to the west, gradually strengthening to a hurricane on the 17th. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x633, 885 KB) Summary Hurricane Alicia (1983) track. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x633, 885 KB) Summary Hurricane Alicia (1983) track. ...
Gulf of Mexico in 3D perspective. ...
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ...
As the ridge receded eastward, Alicia was able to move more northward. As it approached the Texas coast, it quickly strengthened to a 115 mph major hurricane. It made landfall near Galveston, Texas on August 18. The storm moved northward, its eye passing over Houston. (This was actually the second visit the storm made over Houston; it had previously passed over the city as a thunderstorm a few days earlier.)[citation needed] The Strand The City of Galveston is the county seat of Galveston County located along the Gulf Coast region in the U.S. state of Texas within the Greater Houston area. ...
August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Nickname: Space City Motto: Official website: http://www. ...
A roll cloud associated with a heavy or severe thunderstorm over Enschede, The Netherlands. ...
Alicia weakened to a tropical depression over Texas, and dissipated on the 21st over Nebraska. Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 16th 200,520 km² 340 km 690 km 0. ...
Impact Houston suffered millions of dollars in damage. Thousands of glass panes in downtown skyscrapers were shattered by gravel blown off of rooftops [1].
In the end, Alicia killed 21 people and caused $2 billion in damage ($3.8 billion in 2005 dollars).
Alicia was the first storm for which the National Hurricane Center issued landfall probabilities. The US National Hurricane Center is the division of National Weather Services Tropical Prediction Center responsible for tracking and predicting the likely behavior of tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes. ...
The name Alicia was retired in the spring of 1984 and was replaced with Allison in the 1989 season. (Ironically, Tropical Storm Allison became a major flood disaster in East Texas in 1989, and then in June 2001 another Tropical Storm Allison would itself be retired as a name after causing even greater flood damage to Houston. The current name in that cycle is Andrea.) 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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This article is about the tropical storm of 1989. ...
Red counties show the core of East Texas, counties shown as pink may or may not be included in East Texas, and thus their inclusion varies from source to source. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
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External links - National Weather Service Summary
- NHC Alicia Report
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