Jul 25, 2020
Hurricane Hanna was the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic Basin hurricane season and made landfall on the lower Texas coast north of Port Mansfield on the afternoon of the 25th. Hanna was the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Hurricane Harvey. ||Hanna began as a tropical wave, first noted for possible development when it was near Hispaniola on the 19th. The tropical wave moved northwest across Cuba into the central Gulf of Mexico where it became a tropical depression on the morn
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 912727). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Jim Wells County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.