 Tropical Storm Felice was a modest tropical cyclone that lightly impacted parts of the Gulf Coast of the United States in mid @-@ September 1970 . Spawned by an upper @-@ level trough over the Bahamas , the system crossed the Florida Keys and entered the Gulf of Mexico , where it gradually began to strengthen . Felice was a disorganized storm for its entire duration , plagued by dry air , a lack of deep thunderstorm activity , and an ill @-@ defined center of circulation , but nevertheless managed to peak as a high @-@ end tropical storm with winds just below Category 1 hurricane strength . Tracking northwestward , the storm brushed southern Louisiana on September 15 before making landfall northeast of Galveston , Texas , late that same day . Once ashore , Felice quickly deteriorated as it recurved into the central United States . While over southeastern Oklahoma , however , its remnants still closely resembled a formidable tropical cyclone . 
