 Upon making landfall on the central Texas coast, Claudette's storm surge reached a maximum height of 5.3 feet (1.6 m) in Galveston. Freeport reported a "storm tide" — the overall rise of water over the mean low tide — of 9.15 feet (2.79 m). Claudette produced moderate rainfall across southern Texas, peaking at 6.5 inches (170 mm) in Tilden. On Matagorda Island, the local weather station measured winds of 75 mph (121 km / h) — the only official report of hurricane-force winds along the coastline. However, several offshore oil rigs reported winds of up to 90 mph (140 km / h), and one unofficial reading in Seadrift indicated winds of 96.6 mph (155.5 km / h). This report would suggest the storm was a low-end Category 2 hurricane, though this contradicted Hurricane Hunters' data, which pointed to a storm of a lesser intensity.
