ALLISON of Texas fame actually hit Nantucket?

[HalloweenGale]

I just found this out, ALLISON (the storm that dumped tons of rain on houston) actually made landfall on Nantucket, TWC was wrong about her, they said she died an easy death over the LA/MS border.

[bahamaswx]

I thought TWC just took all their TC forecasts from the NHC?

[TexasSam]

Allison (2001) made landfall down near Freeport Texas, went north to about Brian/College Station, then the tropical low that was left over drifted back south and stalled on the north East side of Houston.
*I was there*

[opera ghost]

Uh... I'll remember that died an easy death comment when I remember the people who died in Allison...

No. Just no. I was there. Allison was not only in Houston- she made a mess of my neighborhood and demolished part of my workplace... being in a basement in the medical center in Allison was a poor choice- we lost everything at that office. Everything. Multimillion dollar machines, patient informaiton- everything.

Landfall was just south of Houston- she clubbed us going north- then swung around and demolished us going south. She may have peetered out somewhere else (frankly I was sloshing through the streets trying to get to work and find out how bad the damage was) but she was a Texas storm- and anyone who tells you differently is speaking of another storm.

[HalloweenGale]

look, "easy death" was about how the storm died out.

[OtherHD]

Didn't she kill like 6 people in PA?

[Air Force Met]

They do a non-job of forecasting hurricanes. They use the NHC forecasts.

[opera ghost]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/2001allison.html

Everythign you ever wanted to know about the death of Allison '01 from NHC (cutting out the first 8 days of her existance when she was making Texan's lives living hell)

"During the early morning hours of the 11th, strong thunderstorms became organized near the low-level circulation center and surface observations indicated that Allison had become a subtropical storm by 0600 UTC. Convection wrapped all the way around the center creating an "eye-like" feature (Figure 4) near 1200 UTC. In spite of the eye-like feature apparent in radar imagery, the cyclone's radius of maximum winds (~100 n mi) was more typical of a subtropical low. Also, surrounding upper-air observations continued to show that Allison was in a weakly baroclinic environment.

The subtropical storm tracked east-northeastward across southern Mississippi. It weakened back to subtropical depression status by 0000 UTC 12 June, when the system was located over southwestern Alabama. It continued to track east-northeastward across southern Alabama, southern Georgia, and southern South Carolina before becoming stationary just north of Wilmington, NC on the 14th. The center of Allison then drifted slowly northward over eastern North Carolina and extreme southeastern Virginia on the 15th. It then moved more quickly northeastward and reached the mid-Atlantic coast on the 17th and eventually cleared the United States mainland along the Delmarva Peninsula later that day. At 1200 UTC 17 June, Allison began to interact with an approaching cold front and briefly strengthened back to a subtropical storm.

Allison merged with the cold front around 0000 UTC 18 June, then becoming an extratropical low pressure system. Shortly after becoming extratropical, the system accelerated east-northeastward before dissipating southeast of Nova Scotia around 0600 UTC 19 June."

Landfall is a deceptive term since she never approached there from open water. She exited the ConUS from the Delmarva Penn.