Severe Thunderstorm and Tropical Storm Bertha Impacts

Numerous severe thunderstorms are expected across a broad region from the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast States today into tonight. Swaths of damaging wind gusts are expected and some tornadoes are possible. Bertha is expected to bring tropical storm conditions to portions of the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle westward to southeastern Louisiana later today and Wednesday. Read More >

*Hurricane Carla*
September 3-13, 1961

Carla Storm Surge: Measured and High Water Marks Louisiana Map Sources: Louisiana U.S. Weather Bureau Post Storm Surveys U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Survey

Carla Storm Surge: Measured and High Water Marks Texas Map Sources: Verification Study of a Bathystrophic Storm Surge Model TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM - NO. 50 (May 1975) U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Survey

Carla Storm Surge: Measured and High Water Marks Source: Texas and Louisiana U.S. Weather Bureau Post Storm Surveys U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Survey
Location		Feet (MSL)
High Island, TX (staff gage)		8.9
Orange, TX (staff gage)		7.4
Port Arthur, TX (Texaco Tank Farm) (HWM)		6.7
Port Arthur/Orange Bridge, TX (crest gage)		6.9
Lake Sabine, TX (crest gage)		7.2
Port Arthur, TX Corp of Engineer Office (recorder)		7.1
Sabine Pass, TX Old Coast Guard Station (recorder)		7.4
Sabine Pass, TX Coast Guard Station (HWM)		7.7
Sabine Pass, TX West Jetty (HWM)		8.8
Sabine Pass, TX Keith Lake Gully (crest gage)		7.3
Cameron, LA (recorder)		6.5
Grand Chenier, LA (recorder)		7.5
Morgan City, LA (HWM)		4.5
Eugene Island, LA (HWM)		7.1

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Severe Thunderstorm and Tropical Storm Bertha Impacts

Hurricane Carla 1961