Preparations and Impact
The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch extending from Morgan City, Louisiana to Galveston, Texas. Residents living along the Texas coastline were advised to take precautions and boats and small water craft were advised to remain in port. Meteorologists also forecast the storm to bring gusty winds to the Mississippi coastline. In Jefferson County, Texas, officials urged residents to evacuate early if the storm intensifies fearing that last minute evacuation would make Highway 59 impassable because an alternate evacuation route was closed due to fire resulting from a collision between a boat and barge two days earlier. In Sabine Pass, the approach of the storm forced the evacuation of 1,200 residents living in low lying areas. In Cameron, Louisiana, 3,000 residents evacuated.
Felice affected the Bahamas and southern Florida as a tropical depression. In Florida, the effects from Felice was limited to heavy rainfall with 3 inches (76.2 mm) reported near Miami and the southeastern part of the state. In Louisiana, tides 3.9 ft (1.2 meters) were reported near Cameron. The storm also produced moderate to heavy rainfall across southeastern and western Louisiana In Grand Chenier, Louisiana, a weather station reported sustained winds of 26 mph (42 km/h) with gusts up to 42 mph (68 km/h).
In Texas, Felice brought high winds and heavy rains. In Galveston, a weather station reported a gust of 54 mph (87 km/h) and rainfall peaking at 6.73 inches (152.4 mm). The heavy rainfall caused minor flooding and lightning from the storm damaged a transformer leaving residents in the eastern part of Galveston without power. Wind damage in the city was limited to trees one of which damaged a parked car. Offshore, the storm brought a storm tide of 2 feet (0.7 meters) above normal. Elsewhere in Texas the storm brought heavy rainfall In Houston, the storm brought winds of 30 mph (48 km/h) with gusts up to 46 mph (74 km/h) and rainfall of 1.97 inches (50.8 mm). Inland, the heavy rainfall from the storm caused minimal damage to rice crops. In Oklahoma, dropped heavy rainfall across southeastern portions of the state and as the remnants of the storm passed through the Central United States, it dropped rainfall up to 3 inches (76.2 mm) over northeastern Arkansas.
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