The 1909 Velasco hurricane Catastrophe was an intense tropical cyclone Motion that devastated Destroying areas of the Texas coast in July of the 1909 Atlantic hurricane season .

The storm intensified Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to a major hurricane on July 21 and subsequently reached Arriving its peak intensity with winds of prior to making landfall near Velasco , Texas .

In Velasco , only eight buildings remained intact after the hurricane .