Meteorological History
Alice is estimated to have formed as a tropical storm on June 24 in the Gulf of Mexico about halfway between the Yucatán Peninsula and Tamaulipas. It quickly strengthened as it moved northwestward, and by the morning of June 25, it had reached hurricane strength as it approached the coastline at the United States–Mexico border. Shortly thereafter, it made landfall just south of the border in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas with winds of 70–80 mph (110–130 km/h). The storm approximately followed the Rio Grande after moving inland, passing over Laredo, Texas late on June 25 as it weakened. The storm dissipated early on June 26 over southern Texas.
Read more about this topic: Hurricane Alice (June 1954)
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