Despite the issuance of a hurricane warning Warning just eight hours prior to landfall , Jerry caused Causation only three fatalities in Texas , possibly due Causation to the storm 's small size ; a car fell Motion over the Galveston Seawall , killing Killing its three occupants .

Strong waves caused Causation several offshore shipping incidents Catastrophe , and storm Catastrophe surge inundated Damaging areas of the Texas coast , though damage Damaging in Galveston was mostly mitigated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the Galveston Seawall .