Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bellaire, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Houston-Port, TX, 11 miles east of Bellaire at 19 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 94°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 63°F and 44°F. June is the wettest at 7.9 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 54.3 inches over 55 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (29.1 of 54.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 54 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (18); a normal September there has highs of 90°F and 4.5 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 109 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 5 nights a year. That 54.3 inches is more than at 293 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (94%). Stafford, 9 miles southwest, has its own station (Houston Sugarland Mem, TX): 49.8 inches a year, 4.5 less than here, and the same August average high, 94°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Manchester, TX, 12 miles east, averaged 89°F in August and 60°F in February over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to October. Sea level at the Morgans Point tide gauge, 29 miles from Bellaire, 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 287 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bellaire: 211 thunderstorm wind reports, 58 flash floods, 14 lightning strikes, 3 floods and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 18 people and injured 25, and the NWS estimated $2.05 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on September 2, 1997. May has had the most flash floods, 14 of 58. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 689 have had fewer than Bellaire.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bellaire's ZIP code 77401 have filed 3,303 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $253.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Harvey in 2017: 2,087 claims (63% of all) and $223.5 million, then Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 with 555 and Early summer storms in 2015 with 236. 96% 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, 406 have fewer than Bellaire.