During the second week of June, a tropical wave crossed the Caribbean sea and moved over the Yucatan peninsula. On June 12, a low pressure area formed at the end of the wave in the Bay of Campeche. Two days after that, the low moved inland over northeastern Mexico, which halted tropical development. The low moved generally northward and crossed over Texas before drifting back toward the Gulf of Mexico, into which it emerged on the 16th. The disturbance organized into Tropical Storm Arthur a day later. The disorganized system moved northeastward parallel to the Texas coastline, accelerating as it did so, until it made landfall late that evening. It lost tropical cyclone status very soon after.
Though Arthur was short-lived, it and its remnants brought significant rainfall to the Gulf coast and later to the southeastern United States as it moved across the country.
Arthur was quite a disorganized storm, with its center displaced from the heaviest thunderstorm activity.
Arthur only briefly held tropical storm status over the Gulf of Mexico before moving back over land.
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