This compilation reel aggregates NBC News and Big 2 News stories about Hurricane Alicia. Broadcast on Houston's KPRC and a variety of NBC programs between August 16 to 24, 1983, the reel provides a complete look at television coverage from before, during, and after the storm. Segments marked "A-News" were produced by the NBC News Affiliate Service for local affiliates. Those marked "11th Hour" were fed to NBC affiliate stations for 10 or 11pm newscasts. Hurricane Alicia made landfall on Galveston Island as a Category 3 storm on August 18, 1983. As the system moved inland, the eye passed just west of downtown Houston. Causing $3 billion in damage, Alicia was the costliest tropical cyclone in US history at the time.