Event narrative (NOAA)
Hurricane Ike made landfall early in the morning on September 13th near Galveston Texas. Across South Texas, Ike produced a storm surge of 2 to 4 feet across barrier islands and inland bays and waterways, and a storm tide of 3 to 6 feet. In addition, the combination of high surf and storm tide resulted in minor beach erosion of 30 to 50 feet along portions of Mustang and Padre Islands. The high surf also resulted in one fatality at Packery Channel.||A 19 year old died after a wave swept him off the Packery Channel jetty as he was walking along it. A friend and two witnesses attempted to rescue the teen, and were also knocked off the jetty by a wave. All three of these individuals were rescued, with one experiencing critical head injuries. Another one of the rescued received non-life
Other notable high surf events in Texas
Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.