Effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas included 23 deaths caused by extreme flooding.

The first storm of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Allison lasted unusually long for a June storm, remaining tropical or subtropical for 15 days.

The storm developed from a tropical wave in the northern Gulf of Mexico on June 4, 2001, and struck the northern Texas coast shortly thereafter.

It drifted northward through the state, turned back to the south, and re-entered the Gulf of Mexico.

The storm continued to the east-northeast, made landfall on Louisiana, then moved across the southeast United States and Mid-Atlantic.

Allison was the first storm since Tropical Storm Frances in 1998 to strike the northern Texas coastline.