Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Manvel, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Houston Clover Field, TX, 7 miles east of Manvel at 44 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 94°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 65°F and 46°F. October is the wettest at 5.8 inches of precipitation on average and March the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 53.2 inches over 62 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 57% of the year's precipitation (30.4 of 53.2 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 57 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (18); a normal September there has highs of 90°F and 5.4 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 6 nights a year. That 53.2 inches is more than at 291 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (93%). Fresno, 7 miles northwest, has its own station (Thompsons 3 WSW, TX): 50.0 inches a year, 3.2 less than here, and an August average high of 93°F against 94°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Manchester, TX, 17 miles north, 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 Manvel, 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 101 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Manvel: 67 thunderstorm wind reports, 23 flash floods, 10 lightning strikes and 1 flood. They killed 1 person and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $2.00 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 72 mph, on April 17, 2015. August has had the most flash floods, 8 of 23. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 481 have had fewer than Manvel.

Flood insurance policyholders in Manvel's ZIP code 77578 have filed 666 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $19.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Harvey in 2017: 211 claims (32% of all) and $14.0 million, then Tropical Storm Claudette in 1979 with 100 and Hurricane Chantel in 1989 with 99. 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, 349 have fewer than Manvel.