Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Missouri City, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Houston Sugarland Mem, TX, 8 miles northwest of Missouri City at 82 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 95°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 45°F. August is the wettest at 5.3 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 49.8 inches over 63 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (26.6 of 49.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 54 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (17); a normal September there has highs of 90°F and 4.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 112 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 10 nights a year. That 49.8 inches is more than at 267 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (86%). Fresno, 6 miles southeast, has its own station (Thompsons 3 WSW, TX): 50.0 inches a year, 0.2 more than here, and a July average high of 92°F against 95°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Manchester, TX, 19 miles northeast, 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, 34 miles from Missouri City, 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 Missouri City: 68 thunderstorm wind reports, 23 flash floods, 9 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 1 person and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $2.02 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 77 mph, on March 15, 2024. September has had the most flash floods, 5 of 23. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 481 have had fewer than Missouri City.

Flood insurance policyholders in Missouri City's 2 ZIP codes have filed 1,341 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $16.0 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Harvey in 2017: 559 claims (42% of all) and $11.6 million, then Flooding in 1979 with 126 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 with 108. 79% 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, 385 have fewer than Missouri City.