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1916 Texas hurricane
The 1916 Texas hurricane brought an extensive swath of destruction stretching from the Lesser Antilles westward to South Texas. An intense Category 4 hurricane at its peak, until 1919 the hurricane was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike anywhere in the United States since the 1886 Indianola hurricane in terms of its barometric pressure. Although the storm's greatest impacts were in Texas, considerable damage was wrought on Jamaica, with minimal impacts in the Lesser Antilles and the Yucatan Peninsula. Over its eight-day trek across the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, the intense hurricane caused 24 deaths and accrued US$28.6 million in damage.
The tropical cyclone developed as a tropical storm east of Barbados on August 12 based on ship and insular observations in the vicinity of the storm at the time. Tracking westward, the tropical cyclone gradually intensified and reached hurricane strength on August 15 shortly before making landfall on Jamaica as a minimal hurricane. Additional strengthening occurred as the storm traversed the Yucatán Channel as a major hurricane on August 17. In the Gulf of Mexico, the storm reached its peak intensity as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph (215 km/h); the hurricane made landfall near Baffin Bay, Texas with this intensity late on August 18. After moving inland, the tropical cyclone rapidly diminished and dissipated on August 20 over West Texas.
==Meteorological history==
At 06:00 UTC on August 12, ship observations near Barbados indicated that a westward-moving trough of low pressure had become sufficiently organized to be considered a tropical storm. A possible precursor disturbance as indicated by low barometric pressures and strong winds was observed by ships as early as August 8 and as far east as the coast of Senegal. However, during this time these observations were inconclusive in regards to determining the formation of a tropical cyclone. Tracking steadily westward, the tropical storm gradually intensified and reached hurricane intensity on August 15 while south of Hispaniola.〔 Over the following few days, the hurricane curved slightly more northward. This new trajectory brought the storm to a landfall on the south-central coast of Jamaica with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) at around 18:00 UTC on August 15. In Kingston, Jamaica, the lowest documented pressure was 1006 mbar (hPa; 29.71 inHg).〔
After passing Jamaica, the hurricane continued to gradually intensify, and tracked through the Yucatán Channel on August 17. At 12:00 UTC that day, the storm reached major hurricane strength just north of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Although ship observations in the area that day were sparse and at the most only suggested a cyclone of minimal tropical storm strength, the hurricane's official intensity based on previous intensification trends.〔 The next day, the storm strengthened further to the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the modern day Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. This trend of intensification continued up until 22:00 UTC on August 18, when the hurricane made landfall near Baffin Bay, Texas. At this time, the tropical cyclone reached its peak intensity with winds of 135 mph (215 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure estimated at 932 mbar (hPa; 27.52 inHg).〔 In terms of pressure, this made the 1916 Texas hurricane stronger than any other landfalling tropical cyclone in the United States since 1886 until it was surpassed by the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane. After landfall,〔 the hurricane quickly decayed over South Texas and was last noted as a tropical depression near McCamey in West Texas on August 20.
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