Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Hitchcock, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Galveston Scholes Field, TX, 10 miles southeast of Hitchcock 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 63 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); 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%). Santa Fe, 6 miles northwest, has its own station (Houston NWSO, TX): 60.0 inches a year, 12.8 more than here, and the same August average high, 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Galveston Railroad Bridge, 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, 11 miles from Hitchcock, 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 84 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Hitchcock: 59 thunderstorm wind reports, 18 flash floods, 5 lightning strikes, 1 flood and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $2.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 83 mph, on April 10, 2024. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 394 have had fewer than Hitchcock.

Flood insurance policyholders in Hitchcock's ZIP code 77563 have filed 4,023 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $92.0 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Ike in 2008: 1,345 claims (33% of all) and $43.5 million, then Hurricane Alicia in 1983 with 844 and Flooding in 1998 with 674. 95% 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, 416 have fewer than Hitchcock.