Jul 2, 2010
Hurricane Alex made its final landfall at 9pm, Wednesday June 30th, along the northern Mexican coast around 110 miles south of Brownsville as a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. Alex was the first Hurricane in June for the Altantic Basin since 1995, and the strongest in the month of June since Hurricane Alma in 1966. Alex was a very large hurricane with tropical storm force winds extending over 200 miles from the center. Although Alex passed over 200 miles south of Corpus
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 254495). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in San Patricio County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.