Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Humble, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Houston Intercont Airport, TX, 8 miles west of Humble at 95 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 95°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 44°F. June is the wettest at 6.0 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 52.0 inches over 64 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (28.7 of 52.0 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 53 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (18); a normal September there has highs of 90°F and 4.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 111 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 10 nights a year. That 52.0 inches is more than at 287 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (92%). Huffman, 8 miles northeast, has its own station (Baytown, TX): 64.7 inches a year, 12.7 more than here, and an August average high of 92°F against 95°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Manchester, TX, 18 miles south, averaged 89°F in August and 60°F in February over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to October. Sea level at the Morgans Point tide gauge, 26 miles from Humble, 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 99 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Humble: 72 thunderstorm wind reports, 19 flash floods, 6 lightning strikes, 1 flood and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 7 people and injured 5, and the NWS estimated $7.20 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 97 mph, on June 21, 2023. May has had the most flash floods, 7 of 19. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 414 have had fewer than Humble.

Flood insurance policyholders in Humble's 3 ZIP codes have filed 3,185 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $214.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Harvey in 2017: 894 claims (28% of all) and $153.6 million, then Flooding in 1994 with 711 and Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 with 358. 83% 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, 404 have fewer than Humble.