Tropical Storm — Coastal Calhoun County, Texas

2024-07-08 · Coastal Calhoun County, Texas

Event narrative

Large trees and a wooden fence were blown down in eastern Calhoun County in association with Hurricane Beryl.

Wider weather episode

Beryl became the earliest category 5 atlantic hurricane on July 1st between the Lesser Antilles and the Dominican Republic. Beryl rapidly weakened to tropical storm strength as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula moving west-northward, shifting north and east along the Texas Coast on its trajectory persistently until landfall near Matagorda, TX during the early morning hours of July 8th as a category 1 hurricane. Notable impacts were confined to Victoria County and Calhoun County, positioned west of the center of Beryl, where rainfall up to 2.6 fell and winds gusted to hurricane force at Port O'Connor. Large trees and a wooden fence were blown down in eastern Calhoun County. Brief tropical storm force wind gusts were observed with the outer rainbands across the Coastal Bend on July 7th. The Port O'Connor NOS site quickly rose to 3.71' MHHW. As winds wrapped around to the north on the backside of the eyewall, the water levels fell drastically to near -0.5' in a negative surge effect.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1204150. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.