High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hurricane Cindy was a Category 1 hurricane that struck southeastern Texas in September 1963. It was the fourth tropical cyclone, first named storm, and third hurricane of the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season, Cindy formed on September 16 from a trough of low pressure in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. After becoming a tropical cyclone, Cindy moved north-northwestward and rapidly intensified into a hurricane on September 17. Later that day, Cindy made landfall near High Island, Texas as a minimal hurricane. Cindy then turned southwestward and quickly weakened into a tropical storm on September. Cindy continued to deteriorate inland, and diminishing to tropical depression six hours after weakening to a tropical storm. By September 20, Cindy dissipated over southern Texas.