Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Odem, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Sinton, TX, 7 miles northeast of Odem at 48 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 95°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 66°F and 45°F. September is the wettest at 5.3 inches of precipitation on average and January and December the driest at 1.7 inches; the year adds up to 33.1 inches over 44 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 61% of the year's precipitation (20.3 of 33.1 inches); the other six months are drier. August has brought the most of the 37 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (12); a normal August there has highs of 95°F and 2.5 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 113 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 7 nights a year. That 33.1 inches is more than at 140 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (45%). Robstown, 13 miles southwest, has its own station (Robstown, TX): 31.1 inches a year, 2.0 less than here, and an August average high of 96°F against 95°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Viola Turning Basin, TX, 9 miles southeast, averaged 88°F in August and 62°F in February over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Packery Channel tide gauge, 31 miles from Odem, has risen 2.41 ± 0.21 inches per decade from 1988 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 24.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 134 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 92 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Odem: 49 flash floods, 33 thunderstorm wind reports, 5 floods and 5 heavy rain events. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $2.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 90 mph, on January 9, 2011. June has had the most flash floods, 13 of 49. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 670 have had fewer than Odem.

Flood insurance policyholders in Odem's ZIP code 78370 have filed 86 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $411,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1984: 36 claims (42% of all) and $181,000, then Hurricane Allen in 1980 with 26. 78% 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, 216 have fewer than Odem.