High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The 1949 Texas hurricane was an intense tropical cyclone of the 1949 Atlantic hurricane season. Forming in the Pacific Ocean on September 27, the storm crossed into the Gulf of Mexico-one of only a handful of known storms to do so-and began to intensify. It ultimately peaked with winds corresponding to Category 4 status on the modern-day Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and made landfall near Freeport, Texas...