Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Lyford, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Raymondville, TX, 7 miles northwest of Lyford at 31 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 98°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 71°F and 48°F. September is the wettest at 5.6 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 0.9 inches; the year adds up to 25.6 inches over 38 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 65% of the year's precipitation (16.7 of 25.6 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 40 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (14); a normal September there has highs of 93°F and 5.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 161 days a year, almost all from February to November. Lows fall below freezing on about 3 nights a year. That 25.6 inches is more than at 83 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (27%). Santa Rosa, 11 miles southwest, has its own station (Santa Rosa 3 WNW, TX): 24.7 inches a year, 0.9 less than here, and an August average high of 97°F against 98°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Mansfield, TX, 21 miles northeast, averaged 91°F in August and 64°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Port Mansfield tide gauge, 21 miles from Lyford, has risen 1.56 ± 0.12 inches per decade from 1963 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 15.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 94 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 60 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Lyford: 24 thunderstorm wind reports, 17 flash floods, 10 floods, 6 heavy rain events and 3 lightning strikes. They killed 2 people and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $186.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 86 mph, on October 20, 2002. July has had the most flash floods, 5 of 17. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 375 have had fewer than Lyford.

Flood insurance policyholders in Lyford's ZIP code 78569 have filed 69 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $1.5 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Hanna in 2020: 11 claims (16% of all) and $181,000. 35% 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, 200 have fewer than Lyford.