America’s 15 Worst Hurricanes

The only major storm of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Alicia struck Galveston and Houston with 96 mile-per-hour winds and 127 mile-per-hour gusts, causing $2.6 billion ($5.7 billion in 2010 terms) in damage and 21 deaths. Alicia was the worst hurricane to hit Texas in more than 20 years, and it became the first storm in which the National Hurricane Center issued landfall probabilities.