Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Anahuac, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Anahuac, TX, 7 miles north of Anahuac at 24 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 74°F; January is the coolest, at 62°F and 43°F. August and September are the wettest at 7.0 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 59.8 inches over 67 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 57% of the year's precipitation (34.2 of 59.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 60 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 88°F and 7.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 68 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 11 nights a year. That 59.8 inches is more than at 302 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (97%). Baytown, 18 miles west, has its own station (Baytown, TX): 64.7 inches a year, 4.9 more than here, and the same August average high, 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Rollover Pass, TX, 15 miles southeast, averaged 89°F in August and 57°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the Morgans Point tide gauge, 19 miles from Anahuac, has risen 1.50 ± 0.24 inches per decade from 1993 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 15.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 90 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 18 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Anahuac: 15 thunderstorm wind reports and 3 flash floods. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $80.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on December 3, 1997.

Flood insurance policyholders in Anahuac's 2 ZIP codes have filed 527 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $23.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Ike in 2008: 247 claims (47% of all) and $16.1 million, then Hurricane Harvey in 2017 with 79 and Hurricane Alicia in 1983 with 47. 90% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 433 Texas cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 337 have fewer than Anahuac.