Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Channelview, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Houston-Port, TX, 10 miles west of Channelview 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%). Highlands, 5 miles northeast, has its own station (Baytown, TX): 64.7 inches a year, 10.4 more than here, and an August average high of 92°F against 94°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Manchester, TX, 10 miles southwest, 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, 11 miles from Channelview, 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 100 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Channelview: 78 thunderstorm wind reports, 15 flash floods, 5 lightning strikes, 1 flood and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 2 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $4.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 75 mph, on June 5, 2011. September has had the most flash floods, 5 of 15. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 332 have had fewer than Channelview.

Flood insurance policyholders in Channelview's ZIP code 77530 have filed 927 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $17.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1981: 270 claims (29% of all) and $3.9 million, then Hurricane Harvey in 2017 with 126 and Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 with 121. The year with the most claims was 2017, with 127. 81% 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, 364 have fewer than Channelview.