Event narrative (NOAA)
Hurricane Hanna weakened to a Tropical Storm as it moved into Hidalgo and Starr County before exiting the US into northwest Tamaulipas and northern Nuevo Leon, Mexico, during the post-daybreak hours of July 26th. Though weakening, the well-organized and large cyclone maintained tropical storm force wind gusts measured as high as 64 mph in northeast Starr County during the pre-dawn hours of the 26th. The Remote Automated Weather Station at Falcon Lake in southwestern Starr reported a peak gust to 52 mph at 111 AM CST, also on the 26th.||Local ranchers reported an unknown number of large limbs blown down, along with a few barns pushed off their moorings and an unknown number of buildings with shingle damage, in the eastern half of the county. A tin roof was blown off a service station in R
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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.