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County casts eye towards Gulf

News Staff
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Lavaca County’s Office of Emergency Management is keeping a watchful eye on the Gulf as Tropical Storm Bertha’s path is being projected to impact the area.
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Above average hurricane season predicted

Jimmy Appelt
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as well as other forecasters are predicting an above average Atlantic hurricane season for this year.While NOAA is considered the best for hurricane predictions, it has not released its expectations.
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Beryl passes by with gusty winds, very little rain

Jimmy Appelt
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Last week leading into the July 4 holiday weekend, all eyes were on a storm entering the Gulf of Mexico named Hurricane Beryl.Beryl first formed as a tropical storm on June 28 and rapidly developed into the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season only one day later.
One of many photos submitted by Associated Press photographers up and down the Texas coast leading up Hurricane Beryl's landfall Monday. This shot was framed in Rockport, which incidentally, suffered massive damages during Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

One of many photos submitted by Associated Press photographers up and down the Texas coast leading up Hurricane Beryl's landfall Monday. This shot was framed in Rockport, which incidentally, suffered massive damages during Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Hurricane Beryl proves little more than a blowhard locally

Bobby Horecka
Monday, July 8, 2024
Most in Lavaca County and her neighbors awoke to overcast and breezy conditions Monday, not much of anything to write home about as far as hurricane conditions were concerned.

Eye on Beryl

Jimmy Appelt
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
It’s still to early to tell, but a major hurricane, Beryl, is breaking records as it moves through the Caribbean at this time.Currently Beryl, a Category 5 hurricane is packing winds at 165 mph with wind gusts up to 200 mph.
Stock photo from Pixabay

Stock photo from Pixabay

Past hurricanes have targeted Texas

Murray Montgomery
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
BY MURRAY MONTGOMERY Staff Writer History tells us that over the centuries, as settlements grew along the Texas coast, hurricanes became an ever-present threat. In the article below, I have highlighted the storms that I consider to be some of the worst - there are many more.
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