Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Crystal Beach, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Galveston Scholes Field, TX, 15 miles southwest of Crystal Beach at 5 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 80°F; January is the coolest, at 63°F and 49°F. September is the wettest at 6.7 inches of precipitation on average and February and April the driest at 2.1 inches; the year adds up to 47.2 inches over 56 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 60% of the year's precipitation (28.5 of 47.2 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 61 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (22); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 6.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 66 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 2 nights a year. That 47.2 inches is more than at 252 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (81%). Anahuac, 18 miles north, has its own station (Anahuac, TX): 59.8 inches a year, 12.6 more than here, and the same August average high, 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Galveston Bay Entrance, North Jetty, TX, 6 miles southwest, averaged 88°F in August and 56°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Galveston Bay Entrance tide gauge, 6 miles from Crystal Beach, has risen 2.59 ± 0.10 inches per decade from 1957 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 25.9 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 139 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 18 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Crystal Beach: 13 thunderstorm wind reports, 3 flash floods and 2 lightning strikes. They killed 1 person and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $141,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 71 mph, on September 2, 2000.

Flood insurance policyholders in Crystal Beach's ZIP code 77650 have filed 3,494 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $292.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Ike in 2008: 2,562 claims (73% of all) and $285.8 million, then Hurricane Alicia in 1983 with 262 and Flooding in 1998 with 190. 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, 409 have fewer than Crystal Beach.