09/05/2026
🕰️This day in weather history September 5 for TX/LA and other US and world events.
🔷Tropical Storm Danielle: September 5, 1980 (Image 1-3)
The main impact from Danielle was major flooding across Beaumont, Bridge City, Orange, Vidor, and Port Arthur Texas due to the 12 to 18 inches of rainfall that occurred, most of this in less than 24 hours. Flooding of many streets, homes, and businesses occurred in this area. The storm brought elevated tides and a few tornadoes to Southeast Texas.
By late morning on September 5th located 30 miles south of Cameron in Southwest Louisiana, oil rigs confirmed the depression had strengthened into Tropical Storm Danielle with sustained winds of 60 mph (50 knots). Little change in strength occurred as Danielle headed due west, making landfall in Galveston, Texas at 6:30 PM CDT.
🔷Other events that have been recorded on September 5
🔹Record Heatwave: August 30-September 5, 2000
The heat wave of 2000 continued and Jack Brooks Regional Airport recorded an all-time daily record for the warmest max or high temperature for 5 September reaching a high of 104°F. Lake Charles Regional Airport also set a record on this day in 2000 reaching a high of 104°F. The city of Houston warmed to 108°F and College Station warmed to 111°F, both daily records. ALl of these daily records were but one degree shy of their all-time high temperatures for the month of September established just one day earlier on the 4th.
🔹Hurricane Babe: September 5, 1977 (Image 4)
https://www.weather.gov/lch/1977Babe
Babe made landfall south of Morgan City, Louisiana around 6 AM CDT September 5th with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (65 knots) and a minimal central pressure of 995 millibars (29.38 inches).
Babe rapidly weakened to a tropical storm just after landfall, and a depression later that evening as it headed northeast across the remainder of Southeast Louisiana. Tropical Depression Babe continued across Mississippi, Alabama, & Georgia September 6th and 7th, and finally dissipated over South Carolina on September 8th.
🔹1666: (Image 5)
The Great Fire of London started on September 2nd and continued through September 5th. The fire spread rapidly due to strong westerly winds. This fire consumed 13,200 homes, 87 parish churches, and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
🔹1933: (Image 6)
A Category 3 hurricane made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas during the late evening hours on September 4th, or Labor Day. The storm caused 40 fatalities and nearly $17 million in damages. With the storm making landfall during a holiday weekend, fatalities could have been much higher. The following is from the report of the official in charge at Corpus Christi, Texas: "Probably never before in the history of Texas hurricanes have such widespread and early warnings been given as were received from Washington in advance of this one. The telegram of Saturday, September 2, warning all persons to avoid inaccessible places over the weekend probably saved thousands of lives."
🔹1950: (Image 7)
https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/easy1950.html
Hurricane Easy was an erratic and unpredictable hurricane that lingered over the Tampa Bay area for days, dropping torrential rains and causing damage especially in Cedar Key, Florida where the storm eventually made landfall. This hurricane dumped 38.7 inches of rain in 24 hours in Yankeetown, a record for the U.S. at the time, and caused $3.3 million in damage. Total rainfall amounts in Yankeetown was 45.20 inches.
🔹1978: (Image 8)
https://x.com/NWSSanDiego/status/1037339570424164352
Tropical Depression Norman became the most recent tropical system to make landfall in California near Long Beach as an extra-tropical storm.
🔹2017: (Image9)
Hurricane Irma became a category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph. This made Irma one of strongest hurricane ever observed in the open Atlantic Ocean.
🔹September 5th, 2020: (Image 10)
The Creek Fire in California's Sierra National Forest produced a pair of pyro-tornadoes. The first was an EF2 near Mammoth Pool, and the other was an EF1 near Huntington Lake. Both felled many large trees (and the EF2 produced notable debarking).
🔹September 5th, 1985: (Image 11-12)
Paducah, Kentucky, received nearly 8 inches of rain over 7 hours during the early morning. The rainfall, a product of Hurricane Elena's remnants, created significant flash flooding. Thankfully, no casualties were reported.
🔹September 5-6th, 1970: (Image 13-14)
Moisture from Pacific Tropical Storm Norma led to Arizona's most significant natural disaster. Over 24 hours, 11.40 inches of rain fell over the state, causing rivers in central Arizona to rise 5 to 10 feet per hour. Buildings and cars were swept from the flash floods and carried as far as 30 to 40 miles downstream. In the town of Sunflower, Arizona, water crested 36 feet above normal. The catastrophic flooding took the lives of 23 people, mainly campers, and caused millions in damage.
