Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bay City, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bay City Wtr Wks, TX, 3 miles northwest of Bay City at 52 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 63°F and 43°F. September is the wettest at 5.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.5 inches; the year adds up to 49.0 inches over 62 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 58% of the year's precipitation (28.5 of 49.0 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 60 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 88°F and 5.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 88 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 7 nights a year. That 49.0 inches is more than at 261 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (84%). Sweeny, 15 miles northeast, has its own station (Angleton Brazoria Airport, TX): 45.8 inches a year, 3.2 less than here, and an August average high of 93°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Matagorda City, TX, 16 miles south, 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 Freeport Harbor tide gauge, 39 miles from Bay City, has risen 1.38 ± 0.12 inches per decade from 1972 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 13.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 82 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 15 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bay City: 13 thunderstorm wind reports and 2 flash floods. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $163,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 69 mph, on April 16, 2015.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bay City's ZIP code 77414 have filed 1,270 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $13.5 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1984: 508 claims (40% of all) and $3.4 million, then Hurricane Harvey in 2017 with 196 and Hurricane Beryl in 2024 with 86. The year with the most claims was 2017, with 202. 83% 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, 383 have fewer than Bay City.