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Tropical Storm Allison (2001)
Allison in the federal records: the 386 cities near its track, flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and NWS reports.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Tropical Storm Allison (2001) passed within 75 miles of 386 cities on this site in 7 states. Its peak wind on the NHC track was 58 mph (Tropical storm); the track runs from June 5, 2001 to June 19, 2001. It is on this list for the 8th most flood insurance claims of any tropical system on record. The most cities within 75 miles were in Louisiana (104), Texas (82), New Jersey (60) and Mississippi (58).
- Cities within 75 mi
- 386
- Peak wind
- 58 mph
- NFIP claims
- 35,561
- Deaths in NWS reports
- 26
0 at hurricane strength
Tropical storm
$1.10 billion
208 reports
The full track, landfalls and every city it passed →
Where it came closest
| City | Closest | Wind on the track | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palacios, TX | 56 mi | Tropical storm (54 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Danbury, TX | 2 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Freeport, TX | 3 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Clute, TX | 6 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Lake Jackson, TX | 9 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Angleton, TX | 9 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Brazoria, TX | 17 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| West Columbia, TX | 22 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Sweeny, TX | 25 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Galveston, TX | 28 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Van Vleck, TX | 36 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
| Boling, TX | 38 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | June 5, 2001 |
The 12 cities with the strongest wind on the NHC best track at its closest point, of 386 within 75 miles. Wind on the track is not the wind felt in the city.
Flood insurance claims and federal declarations
National Flood Insurance Program policyholders filed 35,561 claims under its name and were paid $1.10 billion for buildings and contents, in the dollars of the time; that is the 8th most of the 104 tropical systems with claims under their name. Texas had 26,821 of them (75%), then Louisiana with 7,395 and Mississippi with 586. Among the cities on this site, the most claims came from Houston, TX: 17,405, paid $716.9 million. Claims data as of September 8, 2026. FEMA issued 5 major disaster declarations naming it, covering 75 designated areas in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Texas; the first came on June 9, 2001.
| City | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Houston, TX | 17,405 | $716.9 million |
| Slidell, LA | 1,345 | $22.3 million |
| Pasadena, TX | 1,290 | $39.1 million |
| New Orleans, LA | 1,289 | $3.5 million |
| Pearland, TX | 994 | $29.3 million |
| Baton Rouge, LA | 952 | $22.2 million |
| Friendswood, TX | 782 | $35.6 million |
| La Porte, TX | 692 | $21.0 million |
FEMA, OpenFEMA FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3 (claims whose flood event carries the storm's name, ZIP codes summed by city) and Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What the National Weather Service recorded
The National Weather Service logged 208 reports whose account names it, in 17 states: 103 flash flood, 28 thunderstorm wind, 26 tropical storm, 17 flood and 14 tornado. They record 26 deaths and 5 injuries, and $5.25 billion in estimated property and crop damage.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, reports dated within the storm's track whose account names it. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses; some reports are unverified.
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