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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
[Vol. 13 
29.05-29.07 inches reduced to sea level at 6:15 p. m. . . . The 
wind . . . estimated maximum velocity of 90 miles. 
There can be no question that the storm was a fully developed hurri¬ 
cane with a central pressure at least one inch lower than observed at 
Corpus Christi.” 
The following table gives data at different stations. 
Date 
Place 
Minimum pressure 1 
Maximum wind velocity 
Rainfall 
1916 
Hour 
Inches 
Hour 
Miles per hour 
Inches 
Aug. 
18 
Corpus Christi 
6:15 p. m. 
29.07 
6:50 p. m. 
90 
1.58 
18 
Brownsville 
7:00 p. m. 
29.50 2 
8:30 p. m. 
60 3 
19 
San Antonio 
1:00 a. m. 
29.63 
2:31 a. m. 
56 
19 
Del Rio 
28.69 
60 
1 Reduced to sea level. 
2 Lowest reading on record for month. 
3 5 min. period. 
Judging from the storm damage it must have had its center in the 
vicinity of Uvalde, Texas, the damage being less both north and south. 
The rainfall at Uvalde was 3.1 inches and the wind was probably about 
75 miles per hour. Not a single windmill was left standing, many 
small buildings were wrecked and doors and windows were blown from 
the most substantial houses in the immediate vicinity of Uvalde, the 
path being in a southeast to northwest direction. 
August 18, 1916 was a pleasant summer day about three degrees 
cooler than the several preceding days, a maximum of 90 and a mini¬ 
mum of 71. The wind was blowing a light breeze from the northeast 
instead of the usual southeast breeze at this time of the year. No 
barometer was at hand and no warning of the storm was had except 
the clustering of the flies. Nothing unusual was noted until about 
8:00 p. m., the wind changed to the northwest and became stronger 
until it was blowing a gale at 2: 00 a. m. From 2: 00 a. m. to 3: 00 
a. m. it was changeable and gusty. Probably a little before 3: 00 a. m. 
straight winds from the southeast began to blow and buildings and 
trees began to fall. 
Previous to the storm, only a few days, Stomoxys calcitrans were 
very abundant and annoying the stock much in the farming districts 
east of town. After the storm stockmen and farmers made the asser¬ 
tions that the flies were very bad the day before the storm but they had 
seen very few since. Examinations of certain stock were made eleven 
days before the storm and they were almost covered with stable flies, 
while after the storm no individual animal had more than five or six 
