Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit New Caney, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Cleveland, TX, 15 miles northeast of New Caney at 196 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 71°F; January is the coolest, at 61°F and 39°F. October is the wettest at 5.8 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 3.5 inches; the year adds up to 55.8 inches over 68 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (29.6 of 55.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 50 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (18); a normal September there has highs of 88°F and 5.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 88 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 30 nights a year. That 55.8 inches is more than at 298 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (96%). Porter, 7 miles southwest, has its own station (Houston Intercont Airport, TX): 52.0 inches a year, 3.8 less than here, and an August average high of 95°F against 92°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 50 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of New Caney: 30 thunderstorm wind reports, 15 flash floods and 5 lightning strikes. They killed 6 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $7.39 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 70 mph, on February 18, 2012. September has had the most flash floods, 6 of 15. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 332 have had fewer than New Caney.

Flood insurance policyholders in New Caney's ZIP code 77357 have filed 1,622 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $81.5 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1994: 492 claims (30% of all) and $15.9 million, then Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019 with 331 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017 with 207. The year with the most claims was 2019, with 389. 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, 390 have fewer than New Caney.