Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Dickinson, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Houston NWSO, TX, 3 miles west of Dickinson at 19 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 46°F. September is the wettest at 7.3 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 60.0 inches over 69 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 59% of the year's precipitation (35.1 of 60.0 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 60 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 88°F and 7.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 76 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 9 nights a year. That 60.0 inches is more than at 304 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (97%). Texas City, 7 miles southeast, has its own station (Galveston Scholes Field, TX): 47.2 inches a year, 12.8 less than here, and the same August average high, 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Eagle Point, Galveston Bay, TX, 7 miles east, averaged 89°F in August and 56°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the Eagle Point tide gauge, 7 miles from Dickinson, has risen 4.80 ± 0.27 inches per decade from 1993 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 48.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 142 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 174 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Dickinson: 108 thunderstorm wind reports, 48 flash floods, 14 lightning strikes, 3 heavy rain events and 1 flood. They killed 52 people and injured 3, and the NWS estimated $20.03 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 83 mph, on April 10, 2024. May has had the most flash floods, 10 of 48. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 661 have had fewer than Dickinson.

Flood insurance policyholders in Dickinson's ZIP code 77539 have filed 8,375 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $454.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Harvey in 2017: 2,584 claims (31% of all) and $317.6 million, then Hurricane Ike in 2008 with 1,443 and Tropical Storm Claudette in 1979 with 1,105. 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, 429 have fewer than Dickinson.