Hurricane Barry

Southern United States–Gulf of Mexico–Mexico, August 23–29, 1983 

Between August 23 and 29, 1983, Hurricane Barry tracked nearly due westward from its origination point off the eastern coast of the Bahamas, striking the central eastern coast of Florida as a tropical storm, then passing into the Gulf of Mexico, where it was downgraded to a tropical depression. As it moved westward across the warming waters of the Gulf, Tropical Depression Barry slowly reintensified, becoming a tropical storm again on August 28, and a hurricane with sustained winds of 81 MPH (130 km/h) just prior to making landfall on the Mexico-Texas border. A strengthening tropical system at landfall, Hurricane Barry produced a central pressure reading of 29.11 inches (986 mb) making it a relatively powerful Category 1 system. Tracking due west into northern Mexico, Barry dissipated by August 30.