Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Texas City, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Galveston Scholes Field, TX, 10 miles southeast of Texas City at 5 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 80°F; January is the coolest, at 63°F and 49°F. September is the wettest at 6.7 inches of precipitation on average and February and April the driest at 2.1 inches; the year adds up to 47.2 inches over 56 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 60% of the year's precipitation (28.5 of 47.2 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 63 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 6.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 66 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 2 nights a year. That 47.2 inches is more than at 252 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (81%). Dickinson, 7 miles northwest, has its own station (Houston NWSO, TX): 60.0 inches a year, 12.8 more than here, and the same August average high, 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Eagle Point, Galveston Bay, TX, 6 miles north, averaged 89°F in August and 56°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the Eagle Point tide gauge, 6 miles from Texas City, has risen 4.80 ± 0.27 inches per decade from 1993 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 48.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 142 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 120 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Texas City: 89 thunderstorm wind reports, 25 flash floods, 4 lightning strikes, 1 flood and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 6 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $10.00 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 98 mph, on June 6, 1998. December has had the most flash floods, 5 of 25. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 509 have had fewer than Texas City.

Flood insurance policyholders in Texas City's 2 ZIP codes have filed 3,643 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $40.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1981: 1,188 claims (33% of all) and $4.3 million, then Hurricane Alicia in 1983 with 562 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017 with 472. 81% 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, 413 have fewer than Texas City.