Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Clute, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Freeport 2 NW, TX, 4 miles south of Clute at 8 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 78°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 46°F. September is the wettest at 7.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.4 inches; the year adds up to 50.0 inches over 62 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 60% of the year's precipitation (30.1 of 50.0 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 63 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 7.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 82 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 3 nights a year. That 50.0 inches is more than at 269 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (86%). Angleton, 9 miles north, has its own station (Angleton 2 W, TX): 53.5 inches a year, 3.5 more than here, and the same August average high, 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Freeport Harbor, TX, 10 miles southeast, averaged 88°F in August and 58°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the Freeport Harbor tide gauge, 10 miles from Clute, 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 62 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Clute: 49 thunderstorm wind reports, 9 flash floods, 3 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $973,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 75 mph, on December 30, 2002. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 176 have had fewer than Clute.

Flood insurance policyholders in Clute's ZIP code 77531 have filed 709 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $28.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 2002: 290 claims (41% of all) and $2.6 million, then Hurricane Harvey in 2017 with 230 and Tropical Storm Claudette in 1979 with 62. The year with the most claims was 2017, with 231. 94% 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, 353 have fewer than Clute.