Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Deer Park, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Houston Hobby Airport, TX, 10 miles west of Deer Park at 44 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 94°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 46°F. June is the wettest at 6.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.9 inches; the year adds up to 55.7 inches over 66 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 57% of the year's precipitation (31.6 of 55.7 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 89°F and 5.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 101 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 4 nights a year. That 55.7 inches is more than at 295 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (95%). La Porte, 5 miles east, has its own station (Houston NWSO, TX): 60.0 inches a year, 4.3 more than here, and an August average high of 92°F against 94°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Morgans Point, Barbours Cut, TX, 8 miles east, averaged 88°F in August and 57°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Morgans Point tide gauge, 8 miles from Deer Park, 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 142 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Deer Park: 103 thunderstorm wind reports, 24 flash floods, 10 lightning strikes, 4 heavy rain events and 1 flood. They killed 0 people and injured 17, and the NWS estimated $7.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 86 mph, on June 21, 1997. September has had the most flash floods, 5 of 24. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 497 have had fewer than Deer Park.

Flood insurance policyholders in Deer Park's ZIP code 77536 have filed 1,855 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $45.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Allison in 2001: 612 claims (33% of all) and $17.4 million, then Hurricane Harvey in 2017 with 408 and Flooding in 1979 with 169. 89% 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, 395 have fewer than Deer Park.