<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Allison" id="mwAX0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tropical Storm Allison">Tropical Storm Allison</a> makes landfall on the upper-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" id="mwAX4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Texas">Texas</a> coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5<span id="mwAX8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.