NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Cedar Creek, TX
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
18 tropical systems have passed within 75 miles of Cedar Creek, Texas since 1851, 3 of them at hurricane strength; the most recent was Harvey in 2017. Since 1950, 108 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 5 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 3
- Tropical storms
- 15
- Tornadoes
- 108
- EF3 or stronger
- 5
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
1 deaths in all
What the records show for Cedar Creek
The strongest storm to pass near Cedar Creek was an unnamed storm in 1886, a Category 1 hurricane with 85 mph winds when its centre passed 74 miles away. The closest pass by a hurricane was an unnamed storm in 1900, whose centre came within 64 miles. The record near Cedar Creek begins with an unnamed storm in 1854; the most recent system was Harvey in 2017, a tropical storm 58 miles away. The 1880s and the 1940s were the busiest decades, with 3 systems each. Of the 18 systems, one has come since 2000. Cedar Creek has more hurricanes within 75 miles than 69% of the 753 Texas cities on this site. The highest rating among the 108 tornadoes within 25 miles is F3, reached 5 times; the most recent, on April 7, 1980, came within 20 miles. Of the 108, 6 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 35 have come since 2000. May has had the most tornadoes, 29. The most recent tornado was on April 28, 2024. Cedar Creek has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 52% of the 753 Texas cities. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 36 times since 1980, with stones up to 2.75 inches (baseball size). Of the 753 Texas cities, 79% have more hail reports within 10 miles than Cedar Creek.
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Tropical storms and hurricanes near Cedar Creek
| Year | Storm | Closest | Strength when closest | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | HarveyAug 27 | 58 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1973 | DeliaSep 6 | overhead | Tropical storm (43 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1968 | CandyJun 24 | 7 mi | Tropical storm (45 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1961 | CarlaSep 12 | 2 mi | Tropical storm (66 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1945 | Unnamed 1945 stormAug 28 | 75 mi | Tropical storm (45 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1943 | Unnamed 1943 stormJul 28 | 66 mi | Tropical storm (43 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1942 | Unnamed 1942 stormAug 30 | 75 mi | Category 1 (84 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1932 | Unnamed 1932 stormAug 14 | 34 mi | Tropical storm (47 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1929 | Unnamed 1929 stormJun 29 | 75 mi | Tropical storm (68 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1915 | Unnamed 1915 stormAug 17 | 56 mi | Tropical storm (51 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1902 | Unnamed 1902 stormJun 27 | 6 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1900 | Unnamed 1900 stormSep 9 | 64 mi | Category 1 (83 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1897 | Unnamed 1897 stormSep 13 | 64 mi | Tropical storm (49 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1888 | Unnamed 1888 stormJun 18 | 61 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1886 | Unnamed 1886 stormSep 24 | 65 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1886 | Unnamed 1886 stormAug 20 | 74 mi | Category 1 (85 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1875 | Unnamed 1875 stormSep 17 | 52 mi | Tropical storm (69 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1854 | Unnamed 1854 stormSep 19 | 61 mi | Tropical storm (69 mph) | Category 2 |
Strength is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, which is not the wind felt in Cedar Creek: a hurricane's worst winds sit within a few dozen miles of its centre, and inland cities are usually past that.
Tornadoes within 25 miles of Cedar Creek
By decade
- 2020s8
- 2010s9
- 2000s18
- 1990s12
- 1980s12(1 EF3+)
- 1970s19
- 1960s17
- 1950s13(4 EF3+)
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 1980 | F3 | 20 mi | 31.7 mi | 1 / 5 |
| May 10, 1959 | F3 | 17 mi | 11 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 24, 1957 | F3 | 12 mi | 14.7 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Apr 30, 1954 | F3 | 20 mi | 139.9 mi | 0 / 6 |
| Apr 28, 1953 | F3 | 21 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 3 |
| Mar 21, 2022 | EF2 | 9 mi | 11.97 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 14, 1991 | F2 | 20 mi | 5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 22, 1985 | F2 | 23 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Aug 10, 1980 | F2 | 13 mi | 5.4 mi | 0 / 4 |
| Aug 10, 1980 | F2 | 4 mi | 18.8 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 2, 1977 | F2 | 11 mi | 17.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 17, 1971 | F2 | 22 mi | 31.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 108, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Cedar Creek
The Storm Prediction Center has 36 hail reports within 10 miles of Cedar Creek since 1980, made on 26 separate days. Of these, 26 were 1 inch across or larger, and 3 reached 2 inches. The largest, 2.75 inches (baseball size), fell on April 19, 1992. The most recent report is from March 15, 2025. March and April have the most reports, 11 each.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Cedar Creek
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Cedar Creek 5 S, TX, 8 miles south of Cedar Creek at 436 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 97°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 62°F and 37°F. October is the wettest at 5.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.2 inches; the year adds up to 37.8 inches over 54 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (19.5 of 37.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 18 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (7); a normal September there has highs of 91°F and 3.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 122 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 38 nights a year. That 37.8 inches is more than at 190 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (61%). Del Valle, 8 miles west, has its own station (Austin Bergstrom Airport, TX): 35.7 inches a year, 2.1 less than here, and the same August average high, 97°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 62 | 37 | 2.6 | 5 |
| Feb | 66 | 42 | 2.2 | 5 |
| Mar | 72 | 47 | 3.2 | 5 |
| Apr | 79 | 55 | 2.7 | 4 |
| May | 85 | 64 | 4.7 | 5 |
| Jun | 92 | 71 | 3.0 | 5 |
| Jul | 96 | 73 | 2.4 | 4 |
| Aug | 97 | 73 | 2.6 | 3 |
| Sep | 91 | 67 | 3.2 | 5 |
| Oct | 82 | 56 | 5.1 | 4 |
| Nov | 72 | 46 | 3.2 | 4 |
| Dec | 64 | 39 | 2.9 | 5 |
| Year | 80 | 56 | 37.8 | 54 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Cedar Creek 5 S, TX (436 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Cedar Creek
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 40 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Cedar Creek: 21 flash floods, 18 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 flood. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $4.5 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on April 5, 2005. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 456 have had fewer than Cedar Creek.
October 30, 2015: flash flood 3 miles from the centre of Cedar Creek — $2.1 million damage.
NWS: “Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding leading to high water rescues on Tucker Hill Ln. near the Bastrop and Travis County line.”
August 27, 2017: flood 7 miles from the centre of Cedar Creek — $1.5 million damage.
October 30, 2015: thunderstorm wind 9 miles from the centre of Cedar Creek — $500,000 damage.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Cedar Creek's ZIP code 78612 have filed 49 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1998, and were paid $1.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Fall severe storms in 2015: 13 claims (27% of all) and $396,000, then Early summer severe storms in 2016 with 12. The year with the most claims was 2016, with 15. 63% 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, 160 have fewer than Cedar Creek.
| Event | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Fall severe storms2015 | 13 | $396,000 |
| Early summer severe storms2016 | 12 | $214,000 |
Bastrop County, which includes Cedar Creek, has been named in 31 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1991, 16 of them major disasters (by incident: 13 fires, 5 floods, 4 hurricanes, 3 severe storms). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Winter Storm, on April 21, 2023. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Bastrop County a Relatively Moderate rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively High for tornadoes; Relatively Moderate for hail, inland flooding, strong wind, lightning and heat waves; Relatively Low for hurricanes. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $42.5 million a year, the 43rd highest of 254 Texas counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $26.7 million (63%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.
Cities near Cedar Creek
- Del Valle, TX8 mi
- Bastrop, TX11 mi
- Red Rock, TX13 mi
- Dale, TX15 mi
- Manor, TX16 mi
- Elgin, TX16 mi
- Mc Dade, TX19 mi
- Buda, TX20 mi
- Austin, TX20 mi
- Manchaca, TX21 mi
- Lockhart, TX21 mi
- Smithville, TX21 mi
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