Hurricane (Typhoon) — Coastal Willacy, Texas
July 23, 2008 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
After edging northward just off the Cameron County coastline during the early to mid morning, the intensifying inner western eyewall nudged into Willacy County along the Laguna side shoreline from Port Mansfield to the Cameron County line at approximately Noon CDT. The eyewall continue to rotate through eastern, then southern, Willacy County until 2 PM, before conditions weakened to tropical storm strength for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening.||While no verifying observations of sustained hurricane force winds exist from the county, it can be inferred that at similarly exposed locations near the coast, including along the east facing Laguna Madre shoreline, where the most intense core of the eyewall passed through, periods of sustained one minute winds just above hurricane f
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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.