Areas of Dangerous Heat and Severe Thunderstorms

Dangerous heat will build across the Southwest U.S. through the end of the week with daytime highs of 110-115°F. Heat across the southern Plains will briefly ease to near-normal by late week before returning over much of the Plains into next week. Severe thunderstorms are expected across parts of the central and southern High Plains, central Great Lakes, and Ozarks Wednesday. Read More >

*Hurricane Edith*
September 5-18, 1971

Edith Storm Surge: Measured and High Water Marks Sources: Texas and Louisiana National Weather Service Post Storm Surveys U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Survey
Location		Feet (MSL)
Cameron, LA		4.7
Grand Chenier, LA		5.9
Freshwater Bayou Lock, LA		7.4
Schooner Bayou Lock, LA		4.6
Vermilion Lock, LA		4.0
Cypremort Point, LA		9.7
Charenton Drainage Canal near Baldwin, LA		5.2
Calumet, LA		5.5
Morgan City, LA		5.8
Bayou Boeuf Lock, LA		6.0
East Cote Blanche Bay near Ellerslie		5.3
Mouth of Bayou Sale		9.3
Sabine Pass, TX		4.0
Galveston, TX		4.0
Houston, TX		3.3
Freeport, TX		3.0
Corpus Christi, TX		2.2
Brownsville, TX		1.8

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Areas of Dangerous Heat and Severe Thunderstorms

Hurricane Edith 1971