It moved westward across the Atlantic Ocean, retaining little convection on its way. Then the fourth-costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone and still the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a major hurricane, Allison was the first Atlantic tropical storm to have its name retired without ever having reached hurricane strength.Įxtratropical cyclone / Remnant low / Tropical disturbance / Monsoon depressionĪ tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on May 21, 2001. Bush designated 75 counties along Allison's path as disaster areas, which enabled the citizens affected to apply for aid. Aside from Texas, the places worst hit were Louisiana and southeastern Pennsylvania.įollowing the storm, President George W. Along its entire path, Allison caused $9 billion (2001 USD, $13.22 billion 2020 USD) in damage and 41 deaths. Downtown Houston was inundated with flooding, causing severe damage to hospitals and businesses. The worst flooding occurred in Houston, where most of Allison's damage occurred: 30,000 became homeless after the storm flooded over 70,000 houses and destroyed 2,744 homes. The storm dropped heavy rainfall along its path, peaking at over 40 inches (1,000 mm) in Texas. Allison was the first storm since Tropical Storm Frances in 1998 to strike the northern Texas coastline. The storm continued to the east-northeast, made landfall on Louisiana, then moved across the southeast United States and Mid-Atlantic.
It drifted northward through the state, turned back to the south, and re-entered the Gulf of Mexico. The storm developed from a tropical wave in the northern Gulf of Mexico on June 4, 2001, and struck the upper Texas coast shortly thereafter. An arguable example of the " brown ocean effect", Allison lasted unusually long for a June storm, remaining tropical or subtropical for 16 days, most of which when the storm was over land dumping torrential rainfall. Tropical Storm Allison was a tropical storm that devastated southeast Texas in June of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season. Part of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New England, Atlantic Canada with an EF-1 tornado tracking intermittently across Juneau County.Tropical Storm Allison near peak intensity on June 5 with an EF-2 twister in Wyeville, in Monroe County, and lasted until 4:52 P.M.
The National Weather Service in La Crosse confirmed three tornadoes.
Tree damage, some structure damage and power poles snapped east of Seymour. Summary: A tornado developed in the northeast corner of a cemetery to the southwest of Black Creek and tracked northeast to just east of Seymour.Summaries are from the National Weather Service. The times are estimates based on a review of the radar. Here is the timeline of the tornadoes in our part of Wisconsin. All three tornadoes were rated at EF-1, based on the wind speed and their related damage.
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