Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bishop, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bishop, TX, 2 miles southwest of Bishop at 67 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 97°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 68°F and 45°F. September is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and January and April the driest at 1.5 inches; the year adds up to 28.9 inches over 44 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 59% of the year's precipitation (17.1 of 28.9 inches); the other six months are drier. Highs reach 90°F on about 135 days a year, almost all from February to November. Lows fall below freezing on about 9 nights a year. That 28.9 inches is more than at 104 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (33%). Kingsville, 9 miles southwest, has its own station (Kingsville, TX): 31.0 inches a year, 2.1 more than here, and the same August average high, 97°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Viola Turning Basin, TX, 23 miles northeast, averaged 88°F in August and 62°F in February over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Packery Channel tide gauge, 34 miles from Bishop, has risen 2.41 ± 0.21 inches per decade from 1988 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 24.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 134 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 104 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bishop: 66 thunderstorm wind reports, 31 flash floods, 5 floods and 2 heavy rain events. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $3.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 115 mph, on May 8, 2025. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 571 have had fewer than Bishop.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bishop's ZIP code 78343 have filed 43 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $492,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Allen in 1980: 14 claims (33% of all) and $29,000. 49% 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, 147 have fewer than Bishop.