Event narrative (NOAA)
Hermine arrived in fits and starts, with frequent gusty feeder band showers followed by relatively calm conditions through the day and early evening of September 6th. Between 830 and 9 PM CST, the action got underway as the central core of Hermine brought a rapid increase in sustained winds and gusts, along with increasingly heavy rainfall. Between 10 PM and 11 PM CST, the northern doughnut crossed the Rio Grande over lower populated southwest Cameron County. Meanwhile, intense feeder bands east of the center, where some of the strongest winds were sampled, pounded Brownsville with sustained winds of 40 to 55 mph and gusts as high as 69 mph at the Brownsville/SPI International Airport. Between midnight and 1230 AM, a very intense band would reform around the center, curling from just south
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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.