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Tropical Storm — Jim Wells, TX

Sep 7, 2010

Tropical Depression Hermine was a unique storm in that it formed as a result of the remnants of Tropical Depression number eleven in the Pacific crossing into the Southwest Gulf of Mexico on Sunday September 5, 2010. Hermine quickly gained strength becoming a strong tropical storm with winds of 60 mph in just 15 hours, and made landfall in northeast Mexico exactly 24 hours after it formed on Monday evening, September 6. The tropical storm then turned northward and moved quickly across south Texa

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 260839). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Jim Wells, TX

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