The Poster Shack.
from
Hurricane Gilbert
August 25, 1992
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Hurricane Gilbert
September 8-17, 1988
One of the most intense hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean Basin, Gilbert formed about 400 miles east of the U.S. Virgin Islands. He became a Category 1 Hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson scale) late on the 10th of September and moved west, just missing Cuba to the south. Gilbert continued its west/northwest movement increasing in strength by the minute, to a maximum Category 5 Hurricane with sustained winds of 175 mph and gusts over 200 mph. Just before clipping the Yucatan Peninsula on September 13th, minimum central surface pressure with this storm was the lowest ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean at 26.13" of mercury or 885 millibars (mb) at 600pm (EDT) on the 13th.
Gilbert was expected to head more northwest, in a path to hit the southeast Texas coast near Corpus Christi, but it remained on its near steady west/northwest track that finally took the storm into Mexico, about 120 miles south of Brownsville. Hurricane warnings were out along the Texas coast from Port O'Connor down to Brownsville...while Hurricane watches were extended from Port O'Connor up to Port Arthur, Texas. Evacuations, to be done by the U.S. Government, were ready to be enforced should Gilbert had decided to turn more to the north. Because of its actual land target along the upper Mexican Coast, minimal effects and damage occurred over the Coastal Bend area.
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